Betwux

Part of speech: preposition, adverb

Definitions

1. An old-fashioned form of a word meaning in the space or interval separating two things or people
2. Archaic term for being in the middle of two points, objects, or persons, or shared by them
3. An obsolete spelling meaning in the position or time that lies in the middle of two others

Etymology: Its root is a plain counting word. Old English "tweon" and "twegen" meant "two," and "between" was built from "be-" plus "tweon," so the original sense was roughly "by two" or "in the space of two." Old English spelled this "betweox," "betwux," and similar forms, and "betwux" is one of the spellings that turns up in Middle English texts, where it means exactly what "between" means. Its close relative "betwixt" follows the same pattern, with the same "two" at its core. The word survived in English longest in fixed phrases and poetry, where "betwixt" still appears in older writing. The "-x-" spelling is a late medieval variant, not a separate word with its own origin.

Synonyms: between