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., “[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:

     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

to live, reside, stay

• Dutch: wonen (nl)
• German: wohnen (de)
• Luxembourgish: wunnen (lb)
• Portuguese: morar (pt)
• Russian: прожива́ть (ru) (proživátʹ), жить (ru) (žitʹ)
• Saterland Frisian: woonje
• Spanish: morar (es)
• West Frisian: wenje (fy)

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

a dwelling

• Italian: dimora (it) f
• Russian: жили́ще (ru) n (žilíšče)
• Spanish: morada (es) f

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)

1. Custom, habit, practice.

Synonyms

• wont

Etymology 4

Numeral

wone

1. Eye dialect spelling of one.

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., “[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, 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

Upper Sorbian personal pronouns

First person pronouns
	Singular			Dual		Plural
Nominative	ja			mój		my
Genitive	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
Dative	mi (after preposition) mni			namaj		nam
Accusative	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
Instrumental	mnu			namaj		nami
Locative	mni					nas
Second person pronouns
	Singular			Dual		Plural
Nominative	ty			wój		wy
Genitive	će (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
Dative	ći (after preposition) tebi			wamaj		wam
Accusative	će (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
Instrumental	tobu			wamaj		wami
Locative	tebi					was
Third person pronouns
	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Neuter singular	Dual virile	Dual nonvirile	Plural virile	Plural nonvirile
Nominative	wón	wona	wono	wonaj	wonej	woni	wone
Genitive	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeje (after preposition) njeje	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeju		jich (after preposition) nich
Dative	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jej (after preposition) njej	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jimaj (after preposition) nimaj		jim (after preposition) nim
Accusative	jón (after preposition) njón (animate) jeho (animate after preposition) njeho	ju (after preposition) nju	jo, je (after preposition) njo, nje	jeju (after preposition) njeju	jej (after preposition) njej	jich (after preposition) nich	je (after preposition) nje
Instrumental	nim	njej	nim	nimaj		nimi
Locative						nich