twy

== Translingual == === Symbol === twy (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tawoyan. === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of Tawoyan terms == Egyptian == === Etymology === Derived from tw. === Pronunciation === (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /tuːiː/ Conventional anglicization: tuy === Determiner === f sg copular/vocative demonstrative determiner (Middle Egyptian) this is… (Middle Egyptian) O (vocative reference) ==== Usage notes ==== This demonstrative was always a determiner and could not stand alone as a pronoun. It follows the noun it describes. ==== Inflection ==== ==== Alternative forms ==== === References === James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 55. Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Numeral ==== twy alternative form of tweye === Etymology 2 === ==== Adverb ==== twy alternative form of twie == Yola == === Alternative forms === twi, twye, twee === Etymology === From Middle English tweye, from Old English twēġe, from Proto-West Germanic *twai-. Cognate with tway. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /twai̯/, /twɛː/ === Numeral === twy two Synonym: twine === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 73