prep. Obs. [OE. Anglian bi-, betwíh, Saxon betwĭh, -tweoh, -twuh, -tuh, -twioh, -twyh, f. bi-, BE prep. + twíh, etc., prob. shortened from the old accusative form *twîhn (twihn, tweohn; twîhen, twîhon) mentioned as one of the sources of BETWEEN. The original construction of twíh is seen in the phrase mid unc twíh ‘amid us twain,’ i.e., ‘between us’; from a parallel bi (unc) twíh, bi twíh, came the combined betwih. In bitwuht, the -t must have been added on the analogy of betwixt. Only in OE.; superseded in ME. by the expanded form BITWIHEN.] = BETWIXT, BETWEEN.
c. 888. K. Ælfred, Boeth., xxxix. § 13. Sio sunne and se mona habbaþ todæled butwuht him þone dæʓ and þa niht. Ibid. (c. 893), Oros., I. iii. § 1. Betuh Arabin and Palestina.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Luke x. 3. Ic sendo iuih sua lombro bituih [Rushw. bitwih] ulfum.
a. 1000. Boeth. Metr., xxviii. 104. Betweoh him.
