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Zwe , ‘towel, napkin, small napkin.’ The implied *þwahljô (old  thwehlœ) is a derivative of þwahl, ‘bath, washing,’ and hence signified ‘that which belongs to bathing.’ The cognates are connected with  , ‘to wash,’ from the   twaken, dwahen,  dwahan; an old common  word for ‘to wash.’   þwahan,  thwahan,  þweán,  þvá,  toe, tvœtte,  tvo, tvätta, ‘to wash.’ With these are connected  þwahl, ‘bath,’  þweál, ‘washing,’  dwahal, ‘bath,’  þvál, ‘soap,’  twuhel, ‘bathing tub.’ In the allied Aryan languages only  twaxtan, ‘bathing apron,’ is cognate;  τέγγω,  tingo, ‘to moisten,’ are not connected with it. From is derived the  class,  tovaglia,  touaille,  to  towel.  ,, ‘two,’ from the  zwëne, , zwô, , zwei, ;  zwêne, , zwo, , zwei, ; common to  and Aryan. twêne,, twô, twâ, , twei, ; twai, , twôs, , twa, ;  twêgen, , twô, , tû, ;  two,  twê,  twêne, , twâ, , twâ, ;  tveir, , tvœr, , tvau, ;  tvâ,  to, tvende, , to, , to,. further and. Corresponding in the non- languages to dva, Zend dva,  δύο,  duo,  dá,  dù,  dva. In earlier the forms for the different genders were kept separate, until in the 17th  the neuter form became the prevalent one. For further cognates see and. — , and, ‘of two kinds, twofold,’ from  zweier leige, ‘of a double sort’;.  ,, ‘butterfly,’ from the  zwîvalter, , corrupted from  vîvalter,  fîfaltra, ‘butterfly.’ See  and.   ,, ‘doubt, uncertainty,’ from zwîvel, , ‘uncertainty, distrust, fickleness, perfidy, despair,’  zwîfal, , ‘uncertainty, apprehension, despair,’   tweifls, , ‘doubt,’  twîfal,  twijfel. The following forms also occur, zwîfo, zwëho,, ‘doubt’ ( to  twëho,  tweó, ‘doubt’), and  týja (base twiwjôn), ‘doubt.’ All are based on a pre- dweiq (dwī̆p), ‘to doubt.’ — Allied to , , ‘to doubt, suspect,’ from  zwîvelen,  zwîfalôn, ‘to waver, doubt’;    twîflôn, ‘to waver,’  tvivle,  twijfelen, ‘to doubt.’ These cognates are unquestionably connected with  (  δοιή, ‘doubt,’  dvayá, ‘falseness’); the formation of the noun is, however, not clear (see  and ).   ,, ‘branch, bough, twig,’ from the  zwîc (-ges),  and ,  zwîg, ; corresponding to  twĭg,  twig,  twijg; also in  and  zwî ( zwîes),. The g is probably evolved from j, and zwî, zwĭges, may be traced back to a  zwîg. The form twĭg is implied by the   twĭgu (twiggu). Yet the primary forms cannot be ascertained with certainty, hence it is not quite clear how is connected with the numeral  (, Ut. ‘a division into two parts’?).  , ordin. of, ‘second,’ a form. The form in is ander,  andar, ‘the other’; see.  , ‘athwart, across,’ in compounds such as, ‘diaphragm,’ , ‘life,’ , ‘knapsack, wallet,’ from twërch, dwërch (also quërch), , ‘oblique, reversed, athwart,’  dwërah, twërh, ‘oblique, athwart.’ Corresponding to  þweorh, ‘perverse,’  þwaírhs, ‘angry’ (þwaírhei, , ‘anger, dispute’),  dwars,  tvœrs, tvœrt, ‘athwart.’ With these is also connected  ,  and , ‘across, athwart, crosswise’ ( über twërch, über zwërch). The same Aryan root tverk appears also perhaps in þurh, ‘through’ (see ). Beside twërh, the and  variant twër, ‘oblique, athwart,’ occurs (in  also quër; see ),  þverr, ‘athwart, impeding.’  þwerhwo- points to an Aryan root twerk, with which  torqueo is connected.   ,, ‘dwarf, pigmy,’ from the  twërc(g), getwërc (also querch, zwërch),  twërg, ; a common  word. dwerg, dweorh,  dwarf,  dvergr,,  and  dverg. The base is dwergo-, which is perhaps also connected with the  root drug, ‘to deceive’; hence  means  ‘phantom, illusion’?.   ', ',, ‘damson’; only; a difficult word to explain. zwèšen, zwèšpen, Swiss zwetške, zwespen,  and East  quatšge, seem to be related like  and,  and , so that we must perhaps assume