twifold
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English twifold, twifald, from Old English twifeald (“double, twofold”), from Proto-West Germanic *twifald, from Proto-Germanic *twifaldaz (“twofold”), equivalent to twi- + fold. Cognate with Middle High German zwivalt (“double”), Old Norse tvífaldr (“double”), Icelandic tvöfaldur (“double”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]twifold (comparative more twifold, superlative most twifold)
Adverb
[edit]twifold (comparative more twifold, superlative most twifold)
- (archaic) In a twofold manner or measure.
Middle English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old English twifeald, from Proto-West Germanic *twifald, from Proto-Germanic *twifaldaz; compare twofold.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]twifold
- double, twofold (having two parts)
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologue of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio lxiii, recto:
- Aboute the paytrel ſtode the fome ful hye
He [the hors] was of fome as flecked sa a pye
A male twyfolde on his croper lay
It ſemed that he caryed lytel aray
- wavering, uncertain
- insincere, dissimulating
- (rare) Folded in two.
Descendants
[edit]- English: twifold (archaic)
References
[edit]- “twī̆fōld, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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