betwixt

介词 prep.
中文释义
英 /bɪˈtwɪkst/   

英文释义

介词 prep.
  1. Between. archaic,literary
    — There was some speech of marriage / Betwixt myself and her.

词形变化

betwix alternative betwixte alternative betwyxt alternative

词源

From Middle English bitwixe, from Old English betweox, from Proto-Germanic *twiskaz (“twofold, double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“twice, doubly; in two”). By surface analysis, be- (“by, near, around”) + twixt (“between”). Compare Saterland Frisian twiske (“between”), Dutch tussen, German zwischen.
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