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† bitwih, prep. Obs.
[OE. Anglian bi-, betwíh, Saxon betwĭh, -tweoh, -twuh, -tuh, -twioh, -twyh, f. bi-, be prep. + twíh, etc., prob. shortened from the old accusative form *twîhn (twihn, tweohn; twîhen, twîhon) mentioned as one of the sources of between. The original construction of twíh is seen in the phrase mid unc twíh ‘amid us twain,’ i.e. ‘between us’; from a parallel bi (unc) twíh, bi twíh, came the combined betwih. In bitwuht, the -t must have been added on the analogy of betwixt. Only in OE.; superseded in ME. by the expanded form bitwihen.]
= betwixt, between.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxix. §13 Sio sunne and se mona habbaþ todæled butwuht him þone dæᵹ and þa niht. c893― Oros. i. iii. §1 Betuh Arabia and Palestina. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Luke x. 3 Ic sendo iuih sua lombro bituih [Rushw. bitwih] ulfum. a1000Boeth. Metr. xxviii. 104 Betweoh him. |