English edit

Etymology 1 edit

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).

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Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

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.
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Etymology 2 edit

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).[1]

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Noun edit

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?
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Etymology 3 edit

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 edit

wone (countable and uncountable, plural wones)

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  1. Custom, habit, practice.
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Etymology 4 edit

Numeral edit

wone

  1. Eye dialect spelling of one.

References edit

  1. ^ wone, n2.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2023.

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Chuukese edit

Numeral edit

wone

  1. sixty

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

wone

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

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

wone (plural wones)

  1. custom, habit

Etymology 2 edit

See wone.

Noun edit

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.
Descendants edit
  • English: wone

Upper Sorbian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *ony.

Pronoun edit

wone

  1. they (nonvirile plural)

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