Definition of TWISSEL

twissel

Meanings

Plural: twissels

Adj

  • Double; twofold.

Noun

  • A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.
  • That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.

Origin / 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”).

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