twa

twa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Twana.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Twana terms

twa

1. to spit

• IPA^(key): /twa/

twa (plural twas)

1. Twa

twa

1. romanization of 𐍄𐍅𐌰

From French trois.

• IPA^(key): /twa/

twa

1. three

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 197

twa

1. The hiragana syllable とぁ (twa) or the katakana syllable トァ (twa) in Hepburn romanization.

-twa (infinitive kotwa)

1. to spit

Inherited from French toi (“you”).

• IPA^(key): /twa/
• Rhymes: -a

twa (second person singular objective pronoun)

1. (informal) you

From French toi.

twa (nominative to)

1. You. (second-person singular objective personal pronoun)

twa

1. (Northern, Early Middle English) alternative form of two

• IPA^(key): /twɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

twā

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter of twēġen

• Middle English: two, tuo, twa (Early Middle English or Northern)
  • English: two
    • Solombala English: ту (tu)
    • Sranan Tongo: tu
      • Saramaccan: tú
  • Geordie: twe
  • Scots: twa, twae

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwaː/

twā

1. nominative or accusative feminine of twēne
2. nominative or accusative neuter of twēne

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Clipping of twoja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtfa/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: twa
• Homophone: -twa

twa

1. (chiefly literary) alternative form of twoja

• “twa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

• twae

From Middle English twa, northern form of two.

• IPA^(key): /twɑː/, /twɔː/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): /tweː/
• (Northern Scots, Insular Scots) IPA^(key): /twaː/

twa

1. two
   • 1875, William Alexander, Sketches of Life Among My Ain Folk, page 51:

     "A twa-horse wark, maybe? or dee ye make it oot wi' ae beast an' an owse?"

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “twa, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “twa, num. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

twa

1. to hear
2. to feel

• twakala (“to be audible”)
• twanana (“be in agreement”)
• twisa (“to make feel”)
• twisisa (“to understand”)

From Old Frisian twā.

• IPA^(key): /tva/

twa

1. two

• “twa”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011