tweo – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of tweo

Noun: tweo
Gender:

Nominative

Singulartwēo
Pluraltwēon

Genitive

Singulartwēon
Pluraltwēona

Dative

Singulartwēon
Pluraltwēom; twēoum

Accusative

Singulartwēon
Pluraltwēon

Sample Sentences

  • Simle þrēora sum þinga ġehwylċe, ǣr his tīdeġe tō twēon weorþeð: ādl oþþe yldo oþþe eċġhete, fǣġum fromweardum feorh ōðþringeð. (One of each of three things, before his fear of the time turns to a doubt: sickness or oldness or edge-hatred will always snatch away life from doomed beyond-gores.) [10th century, The Seafarer:]

Nouns inflected like tweo

leo, beo, peo, seo, freo, tweo,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *twihō (“doubt”).

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