dwa

From French droit (“right”).

dwa

1. right (legal or moral entitlement)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъva.

dwa

1. two

• UCHWAŁA NR 6/RJK/15 Z DNIA 20.11.2015 R. W SPRAWIE STOSOWANIA FLEKSJI JĘZYKA KASZUBSKIEGO (in Kashubian)
• “dwa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “dwa”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi

From Proto-Slavic *dъva, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *duwō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

• IPA^(key): /dwa/

dwa (feminine/neuter dwě)

1. two

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “dwa”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “dwa”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

• dwān, duān, duā, dūa

From Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-. Cognates include Old English dōn, Old Saxon dōn and Old Dutch duon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdwaː/

dwā

1. (transitive) to do

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: du

  Mooring: düünj

• Saterland Frisian: dwo
• West Frisian: dwaan

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъva. First attested in the 14th century.

dwa

1. two

This numeral needs an inflection-table template.

• Polish: dwa

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “dwa”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Polish dwa. First attested in the 14th century.[1]

• IPA^(key): /dva/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: dwa

dwa

1. two

dwa n (indeclinable)

1. (education) two (grade in school)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dwa is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 199 times in scientific texts, 322 times in news, 157 times in essays, 147 times in fiction, and 111 times in plays, totaling 936 times, making it the 42nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

• dwa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dwa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “dwa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2022
• Włodzimierz Gruszczyński (16.07.2010), “DWA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “dwa”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “dwa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dwa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 590

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъva.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdva/
• Syllabification: dwa

dwa

1. two

• dwa in silling.org

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-dwa

1. (with quantitative concord) alone, only

• kodwa

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IPA^(key): /dwa/

-dwa

1. (with quantitative concord) alone, just, only, solely
2. (with quantitative and relative concords) one, only, sole

• kodwa

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “-dwa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-dwa”