dwa

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See also: Dwa, dwA, and d̪wa

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French droit (right).

Pronunciation

Noun

dwa

  1. right (legal or moral entitlement)

Kashubian

Kashubian numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: dwa

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdva/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: dwa

Numeral

dwa

  1. two

Declension

Further reading

  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “dwa”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
  • dwa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Lower Sorbian

Lower Sorbian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : dwa
    Ordinal : drugi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъva.

Pronunciation

Numeral

dwa (feminine/neuter dwě)

  1. two

Declension

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “dwa”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “dwa”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-. Cognates include Old English dōn, Old Saxon dōn and Old Dutch duon.

Pronunciation

Verb

dwā

  1. (transitive) to do

Conjugation

Descendants

  • North Frisian:
    Föhr-Amrum: du
    Mooring: düünj
  • Saterland Frisian: dwo
  • West Frisian: dwaan

References

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

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъva. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

Numeral

dwa

  1. two

Declension

This numeral needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

References

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “dwa”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Old Sundanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duha, from Proto-Austronesian *duSa. Not related with Sanskrit द्व (dva)

Pronunciation

Numeral

dwa

  1. two
    • 1518, Sanghyang Siksa Kandang Karesian:
      "Upama urang mandi, cai pitemu urang héngan ta na cai dwa piliheun(a)na; nu keruh deungeun nu hérang."
      Like when we bathe, the water we find will only have two choices: the turbid one, and the clear one."

Further reading

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: dwa
    Ordinal: drugi
    Adverbial: dwukrotnie, dwakroć
    Multiplier: podwójny, dwukrotny
    Distributive: podwójnie
    Adverbial qualitative: dwojako, dwoiście
    Multiplier qualitative: dwojaki, dwoisty
    Collective: dwoje, oboje, obydwoje
    Additional collective: oba, obydwa, para, duet
    Fractional: pół, połowa, połówka
    Numeral noun: dwójka
    Relational adjective: dwójkowy
    Related verb: dwoić

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish dwa.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: dwa

Numeral

dwa

  1. two

Declension

Noun

dwa n (indeclinable)

  1. (education) two (grade in school)

Coordinate terms

adjectives
nouns
prefix
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dwa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 199 times in scientific texts, 322 times in news, 157 times in essays, 147 times in fiction, and 111 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 936 times, making it the 42nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “dwa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 95

Further reading

  • dwa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • dwa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “dwa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Włodzimierz Gruszczyński (16.07.2010) “DWA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “dwa”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “dwa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dwa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 590

Silesian

Silesian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : dwa
    Ordinal : drugi
    Adverbial : dwakroć
    Multiplier : dwojisty
    Collective : dwoje
    Fractional : pōłowa

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish dwa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdva/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: dwa

Numeral

dwa

  1. two
noun

Further reading

  • dwa in silling.org

Slovincian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdva/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: dwa

Numeral

dwa

  1. two

References

Xhosa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

-dwa

  1. (with quantitative concord) alone, only

Derived terms

Zulu

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /dwa/

Adverb

-dwa

  1. (with quantitative concord) alone, just, only, solely
  2. (with quantitative and relative concords) one, only, sole

Derived terms

References