tway
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old English twēġe, reduced form of twēġen (“twain”). Doublet of swy.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /tweɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
Numeral
edittway
- (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:
- 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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