tveir

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse tveir, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʰvaiːɹ/ === Numeral === tveir two ==== Declension ==== == Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse tveir, from Proto-Germanic *twai. Cognates include Faroese tveir and Danish to. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [t̪v̥ei̯ːr̥] Rhymes: -eiːr === Numeral === tveir (plural only, feminine tvær, neuter tvö) two ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== milli tveggja elda tvistur === References === == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *twai, whence also Old English twā (English two), Old Frisian twā, Old Saxon twā, twō, Dutch twee, German zwei, Gothic 𐍄𐍅𐌰𐌹 (twai). Compare also Old English twēġen (English twain), Old Saxon twēne, Old High German zwēne (German zween). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁, whence also Latin duo, Ancient Greek δύο (dúo). === Numeral === tveir (feminine tvær, neuter tvau) (cardinal number) two ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: tveir m Faroese: tveir m Norwegian Nynorsk: tvo, to; tvei m Norwegian: (dialectal) tvó, tó; två, tveir m Dalian: tver, twèr m or f Old Swedish: tvēr, twē, tvā m Swedish: två Old Danish: twā, two, to Danish: to Norwegian Bokmål: to → Norwegian Nynorsk: to Gutnish: tweir → Old Frisian: twēr Note that undeclined forms två in Swedish and to in Danish, and tvo in Norwegian are derived from the Old Norse masculine accusative, tvá. === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “tveir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive