Take a sheet of paper and fold it once. Two things happen in that single movement. The paper is now twice as thick, and it now has two layers. Twofold stands on exactly that fold: look at how much, and it means double; look at how it is made, and it means two parts. The -fold ending is doing the same work in and tenfold.

拿一張紙,對摺一次。這一個動作同時做了兩件事。紙變成兩倍厚,而且紙也多出了兩層。twofold 就站在這一摺上面。往「多少」看,它是兩倍。往「怎麼組成」看,它是兩個部分。-fold 這個字尾在 threefold、tenfold 裡做的是同一件事,所以懂了這一摺,整組都懂了。

From the word’s history

The source in this packet gives twofold from Middle English twofold and Old English twēofeald, equivalent to two plus -fold. The fold in the spelling is the fold in the picture.

這份資料寫得很清楚:twofold 來自中古英語 twofold、古英語 twēofeald,等於 two 加上 -fold。字面上的「摺」跟畫面裡的那一摺是同一個。

Wiktionary entry for twofold supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:671778101) — from Middle English twofold, Old English twēofeald, two + -fold

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