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twissel

adj

Etymology

From Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English *twisel (“forked, double”), from Old English twisla (“confluence, junction”), from Proto-Germanic *twisilą (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel (“fork”).

  1. derived from *dwis-✻ — “twice, in two”
  2. derived from *twisilą✻ — “fork, bifurcation”
  3. derived from twisla — “confluence, junction”
  4. inherited from *twisel✻ — “forked, double”
  5. inherited from twisel

Definitions

  1. Double

    Double; twofold.

  2. A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.

  3. That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole

    That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for twissel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA