365 Days of Twinipedia - Day 74

Day Seventy-four of Twinipedia:

Fact #74

The word twin is defined as-

• One of two offspring born at the same birth.
• One of two identical or similar people, animals, or things; a counterpart.

The origin of the word twin-

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• before 900; Middle English; Old English twinn  (adj.), getwinn (noun and adj.); akin to Old Frisian twīne, Old Norse tvinnr double, Gothic twaihnai

The word Twin in other languages - 

• German- zwillinge 
• Latin- gemini
• Japanese- futago（ふたご、双子）
• French- jumeau (man), jumelle (woman)
• Italian- gemella (woman), gemello (man)
• Spanish- gemela (woman), gemelo (man), melliza (woman), mellizo (man)
• Dutch- tweeling (man, woman), tweelingbroer (man), tweelingzus (woman), tweelingzuster (woman)
• Portuguese- gêmea (woman), gêmeo (man)
• Swedish- tvilling (man, woman)