köken: From Middle High German dūs, from Old High German dūs, from Old French dous (“two”). Applied on a person possibly the same word, being most frequent in the interjection “Ei der Daus!”, stemming from the deuce, the highest card, being played, and hence having an ambiguous sense depending on the angle of view; however descendants of Latin deus (“god”) or dusius (“a kind of Gaulish demon”) might be…
köken: Inherited from Middle French deux, from Old French deus, from Latin duōs, masculine accusative plural of duo, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
aile: à deux balles, à deux pas, à deux vitesses, comme pas deux, de deux, de deux choses l'une, de deux maux, il faut choisir le moindre, de mes deux, deux avis valent mieux qu'un, deux cents
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish dos, from Latin duōs, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognates include Ancient Greek δύο (dúo), Old English twa (English two), Persian دو. PIE word *dwóh₁
aile: a dos manos, cada dos por tres, como dos y dos son cuatro, como no hay dos, como tres y dos son cinco, de dos caras, dos patitos, dos puntos, dos que tres, dos tiempos
numero naturale che segue l'uno e precede il tre; è l'unico numero primo pari
köken: Inherited from Latin duae ~ duas, feminine plural of duo, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Attempts at gender distinction are still found in Old Italian, but the different forms soon became interchangeable variants. The victory of due may be due to its being the phonetically intermediate form.
aile: due punti, due ruote, duecentesco, duecento, Duecento, duemila, duetto
köken: From Middle Dutch twêe, from Old Dutch twē, neuter form of twēne, from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ with plural suffix *-i.
köken: From a Vulgar Latin *duī (“two”, root), from Latin duo, probably formed through analogy with the usual nominative masculine plural ending in -ī. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. The similar formation of *duī also happened in Old French dui, nominative form of deus. Compare Italian due, Sicilian dui, Friulian doi.
köken: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (which was inflected as a dual). Cognates include Ancient Greek δύο (dúo), Sanskrit द्व (dvá), Old Church Slavonic дъва (dŭva), and Old English twā (whence English two).
two (the name of the numeral) · anything numbered two (playing card, tram, bus, player with a jersey number 2 etc.) · the school grade '2' (a grade equivalent to 'F')