twei
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See also: twéï
Low German
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German twê, from Old Saxon twene (“two”).
Ultimately cognate to German zwei, English two.
Numeral
[edit]twei
- two (2)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- Münsterländisch: drei, veer, fyv, seß, niegen, tein, twiälf, füftein (füftain, füwtain), achtein, twintig, hunnert, dusend/duusend
- Low Prussian (Samland): ent, drei, veer, fiew, sess, seewe, acht, nege, tien, elf, twelf
Low German cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
Low German cardinal numbers from 100 onward
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Numeral
[edit]twei
- alternative form of tweye
- ca. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey & others, “Genesis 1:16”, in The Bible:
- “[…] And god made twei grete liytis / the gretter liyt that it schulde be bifore to the dai / and the lesse liyt that it schulde be bifore to the niyt […]”And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night:
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
[edit]Adverb
[edit]twei
- alternative form of twie
Plautdietsch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German twê, twei, from Old Saxon twene.
Numeral
[edit]twei
Related terms
[edit]Categories:
- Low German terms inherited from Middle Low German
- Low German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Low German terms derived from Old Saxon
- Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Low German terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *dwóh₁
- Low German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Low German terms inherited from Old Saxon
- Low German terms derived from Middle Low German
- Low German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Low German terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Low German lemmas
- Low German numerals
- nds:Two
- Low German cardinal numbers
- Middle English alternative forms
- Middle English terms with quotations
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English adverbs
- Middle English cardinal numbers
- Plautdietsch terms inherited from Middle Low German
- Plautdietsch terms derived from Middle Low German
- Plautdietsch terms inherited from Old Saxon
- Plautdietsch terms derived from Old Saxon
- Plautdietsch lemmas
- Plautdietsch numerals
- Plautdietsch cardinal numbers
- pdt:Two