tway
English
Etymology
From Old English twēġe, reduced form of twēġen (“twain”). Doublet of swy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tweɪ/
- Rhymes: -eɪ
Numeral
tway
- (now rare, archaic) Two.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- 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 […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
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