Tweóne

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

tweóne

I. two; only in combination with the preposition be, either immediately following it (between:--Be sǽm tweónum, ofer eormengrund, Beo. Th. 1721; B. 858: Exon. Th. 118, 10; Gú. 237. Be werum tweónum among men, Andr. Kmbl. 1116; An. 558. Hé wealdeþ be sǽ tweónum dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, Ps. Th. 71, 8. Cf. O. H. Ger. in zwiskén, untar zwiskén, in later times inzwischen, zwischen, for a similar growth of adverb and preposition. II. double, not simple:--Tweóne leóht vel deorcung twilight, a mixture of light and darkness, crepusculum, Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 3. v. tweónol, and cf. O. H. Ger. zwiski biceps, non simplex, binus; so iz under zuiskén liehten ist: M. H. Ger. zwischenlieht. [Goth. tweihnai: Icel. tvennr.] tweone

Verwandte Wörter: be-tweónum) or being separated from it by the governed noun, the two words together in either case having the force of