Standard Lemma guide
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noun
A house, home, habitation, dwelling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, poetic
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noun
Wealth, riches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, poetic
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num
Eye dialect spelling of one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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verb
To live, reside, stay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal, obsolete
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History
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”).
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”).
Across languages
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