From: alex
Message: 39815
Date: 2005-08-29
> A. wrote:the sens of "ambigous", "unsure" appears to be in several languages
>
>> Surely the meaning fits, but interestingly, Tvastr's daughter gives
>> birth to the first truly mortal twins Yama and Yami. With that in
>> mind, I couldn't help but ponder the similarity between the Vedic
>> Tvastr and the Old Swedish term Tvistra - does anyone know if there
>> is a Vedic term which means twin or seperate or some such thing,
>> which may be linguistically related to Tvastr???
>
> Germanic *twista- is a likely cognate of Skt. dvis.t.Ha- 'standing in
> two places, ambiguous' < *dwi-sth2-o-.
> PIotr