twegen

== Old English == === Alternative forms === twēġe, tuēġen twœ̄ġe, tuœ̄ġe, tuēġe — Northumbrian ᛏᚹᛟᚷᛖᚾ (twœġen) — Franks Casket === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *twai-: cognate with Old Saxon and Old Dutch twēne, Old High German zwēne, whence archaic German zween, compare German zwei. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtweː.jen/ Rhymes: -eːjen === Adjective === twēġen two ==== Usage notes ==== The masculine form twēġen is almost never used in complex numerals. Hence "twenty-two people" is twā and twēntiġ manna, not *twēġen and twēntiġ, and "the twenty-second person" is sē twā and twēntigoþa mann, even though mann ("person") is a masculine noun. In poetry, neuter nouns are usually used with tū. However, in prose, they often occur with twā instead, especially in Late West Saxon prose, where tū is almost completely absent. The combining form (i.e., the form used as the first element of a compound) is twi-: twidǣlan (“to halve”), twieċġe (“double-edged”), twifeald (“double”), twifēte (“bipedal”), twiwintre (“two years old”). See also þrī, whose combining form is þri-. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ōþer twēġa twēntiġ ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: tweyne, tweien, twaineEnglish: twainMiddle Scots: twane (literary)Scots: twain (literary)Yola: twine, twyne