twissel英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

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

— 16thC, George Turberville, The Louer, in 1810, Samuel Johnson (series editor & biographies), Alexander Chalmers (additional biographies), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume II, page 599, As from a tree we sundrie times espie / A twissell grow by Nature's subtile might / And beeing two, for cause they grow so nie / For one are tane, and so appeare in sight;
That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork. rare

形容词 adj.

Double; twofold. obsolete

词形变化

more twissel comparative most twissel superlative twistle alternative twissell alternative twissels plural twistle alternative twissell alternative

词源

词源 1

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”).

词源 2

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”).