két

See also: ket, Ket, kết, and -ket

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kakta (“two”). Cognates include Mansi кит (kit) and китыг (kitiɣ), Finnish kaksi and Estonian kaks.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkeːt]
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Numeral

két

  1. (cardinal) two (only as counter before nouns)
    két ember ― two men

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References

  1. ↑ Entry #227 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Probably from French perroquet, or from Proto-Mon-Khmer *gtit ~ *gtiət (“lorikeet; parakeet”), via the metathesised form *dkiət.

Noun

(classifier con) két (鴶, 𪁄)

  1. (chiefly Southern Vietnam) parrot
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Probably from French paquet or English packet.

Noun

(classifier cái, chiếc) két

  1. safe; strongbox; coffer; lockbox
  2. case (used to store glass bottles of beer or soft drink)
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