Wone

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Archaic for living or residing somewhere over a long period ; an old word for a home, abode or place where someone lives
2. To abide or make one's home in a particular place ; a dwelling, habitation or residence, as used in older English
3. Old-fashioned term meaning to reside or remain in a locale ; a poetic or archaic name for an abode or lodging place

Etymology: "Wone" is a verb meaning to live somewhere, and it is a rare survival: its ancestor in Old English, "wunian," meant "to dwell" and also "to be accustomed to," so living in a place was once bound up with habit and routine. That sense of settled, habitual presence runs through the Old English and Middle English forms, and it is the older current in the word's history. The stranger story is the second possible origin. Some English "wone" forms come instead from a Middle English word "wane," borrowed from Old Norse "ván," meaning "hope" or "expectation." On this account, dwelling senses grew out of expectation: a home was the place where you were expected to be. The same logic appears in a dialect word "von," meaning a spot where one expects to find fish. The Old English and Old Norse routes have partly merged in English, so the two strands are hard to separate cleanly.