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Origin and history of TWA

TWA

U.S. airline formed May 16, 1928, as Transcontinental Air Transport, merged 1930 with Western Air Express to form Transcontinental and Western Air Inc. (TWA). Name changed to Trans World Airlines 1950, but the abbreviation remained. Its last remnants were bought out by rival American Airlines in April 2001.

twa(n.)

Scottish form of two.

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two(num.)

"1 more than one, the number which is one more than one; a symbol representing this number;" Old English twa "two," the feminine and neuter form. The masculine twegen survived as twain.

They are from Proto-Germanic *twa (source also of Old Saxon and Old Frisian twene, twa, Old Norse tveir, tvau, Dutch twee, Old High German zwene, zwo, German zwei, Gothic twai), from PIE *duwo, variant of the root *dwo- "two."

Two cheers for _____, expressing qualified enthusiasm, is recorded by 1951 (in E.M. Forster's title "Two Cheers for Democracy"), based on the traditional three cheers for ______, which is attested from 1751. Two-by-four for a post or other length of wood having a cross-section of 2 inches by 4 inches is by 1884.

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    twelve
    ; a symbol representing this number;" Old English twelf "twelve," literally "two left" (over ten), from Proto-Germanic *twa-lif...-, a compound of *twa- (from PIE root *dwo- "two") + *lif- (from PIE root *leikw- "to leave")....
    betwixt
    in the space that separates, among, amidst, meanwhile," from bi- "by" (see by) + tweox "for two," from Proto-Germanic *twa...
    twain
    Old English twegen "two" (masc. nominative and accusative), from Proto-Germanic *twa- "two," from PIE root *dwo- "two."...
    thou
    singular pronoun (source also of Latin tu, Irish tu, Welsh ti, Greek su, Lithuanian tu, Old Church Slavonic ty, Sanskrit twa-m...
    curry
    knawledge wantis,   And has na colouris for to cover thair awne kindly fautis [William Dunbar, Treatis of the Twa...
    dandy
    fop," c. 1780, of uncertain origin; attested earliest in a Scottish border ballad: I've heard my granny crack O' sixty twa...
    angel
    "one of a class of spiritual beings, attendants and messengers of God," a c. 1300 fusion of Old English engel (with hard -g-) and Old French angele. Both are from Late Latin angelus, from Greek angelos, literally "messenger, envoy, one that announces," in the New Testament "divin
    Tuesday
    third day of the week, Old English tiwesdæg, from Tiwes, genitive of Tiw "Tiu," from Proto-Germanic *Tiwaz "god of the sky," the original supreme deity of ancient Germanic mythology, differentiated specifically as Tiu, ancient Germanic god of war, from PIE *deiwos "god," from roo
    facetious
    "sportive, playful," 1590s, from French facétieux (16c.), from facétie "a joke" (15c.), from Latin facetiae "jests, witticisms" (singular facetia), from facetus "witty, elegant, fine, courteous," which is of unknown origin, perhaps related to facis "torch." Formerly often in a go
    fast
    Old English fæst "firmly fixed, steadfast, constant; secure; enclosed, watertight; strong, fortified," probably from Proto-Germanic *fastu- "firm, fast" (source also of Old Frisian fest, Old Norse fastr, Dutch vast, German fest), from PIE root *past- "firm, solid" (source of Sans

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