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betwixt (prep., adv.)
Old English
betweox
"between, among, amidst, meanwhile," from
bi-
"by" (see
be-
) +
tweox
"for two," from Proto-Germanic
*twa
"two" +
*-isk
"-ish." With parasitic
-t
that first appeared in Old English and became general after c. 1500.