tway
English
Etymology
From Old English twēġe, reduced form of twēġen (“twain”). Doublet of swy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tweɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - 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:
- 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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