Why is number 2 called "two"? or what is the origin of the word "two"?

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i know it's a weird question. but i really need answers tonight because it is an assignment and we have to pass it tomorrow :)))

Answer 1

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It's not known, or even knowable.

In English, its immediate ancestor was Old English "twá" / "tú" - but there are similar words all across the Indo-European language family (for example, Sanskrit "dwau" / "dwē", Greek "δύο", Latin "duo", Old Irish "dá", Lithuanian "du", "dvi", etc.)

That suggests that "two" is a word that goes right back to Proto-Indo-European, the postulated common ancestor of most of the European languages and a lot of others right across to India. And we can never know why the Proto-Indo-Europeans, who probably lived around 4000BC, coined the word.

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Oxford English Dictionary

Answer 2

sounds like french for two.

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