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Wone
Definitions
- 1 A house, home, habitation, dwelling. obsolete, poetic
"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 Wealth, riches. obsolete, poetic
"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?"
- 1 Eye dialect spelling of one. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
- 1 To live, reside, stay. archaic, dialectal, obsolete
"This I make thi wonnyng playce, / ffull of myrth and of solace"
Etymology
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”).
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; cf. von (“place where one expects to find fish”).
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