Twin

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - twin

According to the Old English Dictionary:

twin
adj. Twin, double :-- Twinnum sangum geminis concentibus, Hpt. Gl. 467, 31. [An had off twinne (double) kinde, Orm. 1361. He spacc off hise twinne kindess (two, twin, natures,) 17478. On ilc he brend twin der (Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram, Num. 23, 2), Gen. and Ex. 4020. Iosep gaf ilc here twinne srud (to all of them he gave each man change of raiment, Gen. 45, 22), 2367. On twinne half, 3248. O. Frs. twiska tuine kindem: Icel. tvinnr.]

Related words: ge-twin. twin

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