tway

English

Etymology

From Old English twēġe, reduced form of twēġen (“twain”). Doublet of swy.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tweɪ/
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Rhymes: -eɪ

Numeral

tway

(dialectal, obsolete in virtually all other forms) Two.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  Guyons angry blade so fierce did play / On th'others helmet, which as Titan shone, / That quite it cloue his plumed crest in tway, / And bared all his head vnto the bone […]

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