twoth
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From two + -th. Compare West Frisian twadde (“second”), Dutch tweede (“second”), German zweite (“second”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]twoth (not comparable)
- (dialectal) Second.
- 1872, “Reminiscences of the Army”, in The Cape monthly magazine, volume 5, page 302:
- The colonel would then shout, "Twoty-twoth, form quarter distance column on the grenadier company."
- 1905, Joseph Wright, The English dialect grammar, page 269:
- In Dev. twoth is used for second, as the twenty-twoth of April.
- 1995, Christian Lükemeyer with Tobias G. Noll, “An Optimized Coefficient Update Processor for High-Throughput Adaptive Equalizers”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- The computation of êk*xk-j is reduced to a controlled twoth complementer at the expense of a reduced adaptation speed.