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wone en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /woʊn/ (US)
• /wəʊn/ (UK)
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Etymology

From Middle English wonen (“to abide, dwell”), from Old English wunian (“to dwell, be accustomed to”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunēn, from Proto-Germanic *wunāną (“to be wont; dwell”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive; wish; love”).

Meanings

1. (archaic, dialectal, obsolete) To live, reside, stay.
   • Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned[…] 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 17:
   • This I make thi wonnyng playce, / ffull of myrth and of solace 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6:
   • For now the best and noblest knight alive Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in Faerie Lond; He hath a sword, that flames like burning brond. 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, iii:18 (see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69)

Forms

Deriveds

inwone · woning

Translations (9)

ru жить (to live, reside, stay) · de wohnen (to live, reside, stay) · es morar (to live, reside, stay) · fy wenje (to live, reside, stay) · pt morar (to live, reside, stay) · ru прожива́ть (to live, reside, stay) · lb wunnen (to live, reside, stay) · nl wonen (to live, reside, stay) · stq woonje (to live, reside, stay)

wone en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English wone, variant of wane, from Old Norse ván (“hope, expectation”). The senses relating to dwelling-places apparently derive from the sense relating to expectation, i.e. the home as the place one is expected to be; cf. von (“place where one expects to find fish”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation, dwelling.
   • On the cool height awhile out Palmers ſtay, And ſpite even of themſelves their Senſes chear; Then to the Wizard's Wonne their Steps they ſteer. 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I:XXXVII:
2. (obsolete, poetic) Wealth, riches.
   • What secret place (quoth he) can safely hold So huge a masse, and hide from heaven's eye? Or where hast thou thy wonne, that so much gold Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery? 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, vii:20 (see also xii:11)

Forms

Translations (3)

ru жили́ще (a dwelling) · es morada (a dwelling) · it dimora (a dwelling)

wone en · NUM · etymology 3

Meanings

1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling) Eye dialect spelling of one.
   alt of one