An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Zwirn

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, Z
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry Zwirn.

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2553512An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, Z — ZwirnJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

Zwirn, masculine, ‘thread, twine, twisted yarn,’ from Middle High German zwirn, masculine, ‘double thread’; like Anglo-Saxon twîn, English twine, Dutch twijn (Danish tvinde, ‘twine wheel’), it points to a base twizna-. A Teutonic root twis appears also by a different derivation in English twist. —