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Duo Latin English German Twain Twin Greek Deuce

正面 81.two
英 [tuː]美 [tu]

背面
释义:
n. 两个adj. 两个的num. 二
例句:
1. It's a long way to go for two people in their seventies.对于两个七十几岁的人来说,这段路太远了。

1、Greek duo, Latin duo.2、duo => two.3、d -> t, u -> w.4、1、PIE root dwo-, dwi- "two, double" => two, twice, twain, twin, duo.
two 二来自古英语 twa,二,缩写自 twegen,二,来自 Proto-Germanic*twa,二,来自 PIE*dwo,二,词 源同 binary,double.衍生前缀 bi-,di-,dia-,dis-.
twotwo: [OE] Two is an ancient word, traceable right back to Indo-European *duwo. Amongst its other descendants were Greek dúo, Latin duo (source of English deuce, double, dual, duet, duo, etc), Russian dva, and Welsh dau. In the Germanic languages, aside from English, it has evolved into German zwei, Dutch twee, Swedish två, and Danish to. Two represents the Old English feminine and neuter forms twā; the masculine twegen has become twain.=> between, deuce, double, dual, duet, duo, twain, twelve, twenty, twice, twig, twilight, twin, twisttwo (adj.)Old English twa "two," fem. and neuter form of twegen "two" (see twain), from Proto-Germanic *twa (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian twene, twa, Old Norse tveir, tvau, Dutch twee, Old High German zwene, zwo, German zwei, Gothic twai), from PIE *duwo, variant of dwo "two" (cognates: Sanskrit dvau, Avestan dva, Greek duo, Latin duo, Old Welsh dou, Lithuanian dvi, Old Church Slavonic duva "two," first element in Hittite ta-ugash "two years old"). Two-fisted is from 1774. Two cheers for _____, expressing qualified enthusiasm first recorded 1951 in E.M. Forster's title "Two Cheers for Democracy." Two-dimensional is recorded from 1883; figurative sense of "lacking substance or depth" is attested from 1934."

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