# 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: /wəʊn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /woʊn/
* Rhymes: -əʊn, -oʊn

#### Verb

wone (third-person singular simple present wones, present participle woning, simple past and past participle woned)
* (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 solaceThis 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; cf. von (“place where one expects to find fish”).

#### Alternative forms

* won, wonne, woon

#### Noun

wone (plural wones)
* (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.
* (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
#### Numeral

wone
* Eye dialect spelling of one.

### References

* ↑ “wone, n2.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

### Anagrams

* Owen, enow, owne

## Chuukese
### Numeral

wone
* sixty

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

wone
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of wonen

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

wone (plural wones)
* custom, habit

### Etymology 2

See wone.

#### Noun

wone (plural wones)
* (poetic) Hope; expectation
* (poetic) Wealth
* (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 woneIt 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
* they (nonvirile plural)