astonen

• astone, a-stonen, astoynyn
• astonie (Kent)

Likely a back-formation from astoned, either a partial calque of Old French estoné (“stunned”), the past participle of estoner (“to stun”), with the Old French participial suffix -é replaced with -ed and prefixed with a- or less likely, a partial calque of an unattested *astoné, *atoné; compare Middle French attoné (“shaken”) and Orléanais attoner (“to be worried, to want to know”). By surface analysis, a- +‎ stonen (“to stun”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈstunən/

astonen (third-person singular simple present astoneth, present participle astonende, astonynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle astoned) (uncommon)

1. To stun, daze; to subject to stupefaction.
2. To astonish or surprise.
3. To strike a blow (with a weapon).

• astoneyen

• English: astun (obsolete)
• ⇒ English: astonish

• “astǒnen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “aston”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*extonare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 330