gen. tveggja, dat. tveimr or tveim, acc. tvá (mod. tvo), tvær, tvau (mod. tvö); tvau and þau make a rhyme, Skáld H.: [Goth. twai; A. S. twâ; Engl. two, twain; Germ. zwei; Dan. to; Swed. två; Lat. duo; Gr. δύο, etc.]:—two, passim; tveir ok tveir, two and two, Hkr. i. 125; báðir tveir, Fms. vii. 202; bæði tvau, Skáld H. 3. 7, 6. 55; tveim höndum, with both hands, Eg. 532, Fms. vii. 290; hvárr-tveggja, annarr-tveggja, q. v.; í tvau, adverb, in two, asunder, Fms. vii. 72, 193: in the saying, tveimr er tveggja hugr, two men two minds (= quot homines, tot sententiae), Fas. ii. 228; cp. tveir erut einsherjar, Hm.