wone

English

Etymology 1

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”).

Alternative forms

• won, wonne

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wəʊn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /woʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn, -oʊn

Verb

wone (third-person singular simple present wones, present participle woning, simple past and past participle woned)

1. (obsolete or archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.
   • 15th c., “”, 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:

     This I make thi wonnyng playce, / ffull of myrth and of solace

     This I make thy dwelling place, full of mirth and solace

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, iii:18 (see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69):

     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.

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 17:

     Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned […]

Derived terms

• inwone
• woning

Translations

Etymology 2

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; c.f. von (“place where one expects to find fish”).

Alternative forms

• won, wonne, woon

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation, dwelling.
   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I:XXXVII:

     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.

2. (obsolete, poetic) Wealth, riches.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, vii:20 (see also xii:11)

     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?

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English wone (“custom, habit”), from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice, ritual”), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“practise”), from Proto-Germanic *wun- (“to wish, love”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”).

Noun

wone (countable and uncountable, plural wones)

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1. Custom, habit, practice.

Synonyms

• wont

Etymology 4

Numeral

wone

1. Eye dialect spelling of one.

References

Anagrams

• Owen, enow, owne

Chuukese

Numeral

wone

1. sixty

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

wone

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of wonen

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practise, ritual”).

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. custom, habit

Etymology 2

See wone.

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. (poetic) Hope; expectation
2. (poetic) Wealth
3. (poetic) Dwelling-place, home. By extension A country, realm. Especially with worthly, the world.
   • 15th c., “”, 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, lines 184–185:

     It is not good to be alone, / to walk here in this worthely wone

     It is not good to be alone, to walk here in this noble world

Descendants

• English: wone

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ony.

Pronoun

wone

1. they (nonvirile plural)

Declension