wone

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wonen (“to abide, dwell”), from Old English wunian (“to dwell, be accustomed to”), 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/
• (US) IPA^(key): /woʊn/

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. (obsolete or archaic, poetic) A dwelling.
   • 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?

   • 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.

Translations

a dwelling

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

• Spanish: morada (es) f

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.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː

     This I make thy woning place, full of mirth and of 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)
• Russian: прожива́ть (ru) (proživátʹ), жить (ru) (žitʹ)

• Spanish: morar (es)

Etymology 2

Southern variant of wane (“dwelling”), probably from Old Norse ván.

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː

     It is not good to be alone, to walk here in this worthly wone.

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 (plural wones)

1. Custom, habit, practice.
2. Use, usage.

Synonyms

• wont

Anagrams

• Owen, enow, owne

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Chuukese

Numeral

wone

1. sixty

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

wone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wonen

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Middle English

Etymology

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

Noun

wone (plural wones)

1. custom, habit

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Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ony.

Pronoun

wone

1. they (nonvirile plural)

Declension

Declension of the 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 (after preposition) njeju	jeju (after preposition) njeju	jich (after preposition) nich	jich (after preposition) nich
Dative	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jej (after preposition) njej	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jimaj (after preposition) nimaj	jimaj (after preposition) nimaj	jim (after preposition) nim	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	nimaj	nimi	nimi
Locative	nim	njej	nim	nimaj	nimaj	nich	nich