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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: "a Pair of Panties" ?????
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 13:06:06 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-07-06, Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:

>>>>> Others like Dutch have none of it in plural or "dual".
>>>
>>> Even twins are just one "tweeling".
>>
>>What is term for each individual twin?
>
> Eén van een tweeling, one of the twins.

The related or analogously formed German "Zwilling" refers to a
single twin.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de