twegen

Etymology
From : cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, whence archaic 🇨🇬, compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) two

Usage notes

 * The masculine form twēġen is almost never used in complex numerals. Hence "twenty-two people" is twā and twēntiġ manna, not *twēġen and twēntiġ, and "the twenty-second person" is sē twā and twēntigoþa mann, even though mann ("person") is a masculine noun.


 * In poetry, neuter nouns are usually used with tū. However, in prose, they often occur with twā instead, especially in Late West Saxon prose, where tū is almost completely absent.


 * The combining form (i.e., the form used as the first element of a compound) is :, , , , . See also , whose combining form is.