twi-

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*dwóh₁“two”
2. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*dwi-“two-, double-”
3. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*twi-“two-, double-”
4. Old English · inherited fromtwi-“two, double”
5. Middle English · inherited fromtwi-
6. English todaytwi-

From Middle English twi-, from Old English twi- (“two, double”), from Proto-Germanic *twi- (“two-, double-”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwi- (“two-, double-”) (compare Proto-Germanic *twiz- (“twice”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“twice”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”). Compare twin, twice, two, and see more details at two. Further related to the prefixes bi-, di-, and dis-. Cognate with German zwie- (“twice”), Swedish tve- (“twi-, double”), Russian дву- (dvu-), двух- (dvux-) Old Prussian dwi- (“twi-”), Latin bi-, bis (“twice”) (< Old Latin dui-, duis).

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