Noun: wone
Sample Sentences
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On the cool height awhile out Palmers ſtay,
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And ſpite even of themſelves their Senſes chear;
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Then to the Wizard's Wonne their Steps they ſteer. [1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I:XXXVII:]
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What secret place (quoth he) can safely hold
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So huge a masse, and hide from heaven's eye?
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Or where hast thou thy wonne, that so much gold
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Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery? [1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 2, vii:20 (see also xii:11)]
Nouns inflected like wone
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
wone', Old Norse Nouns '
ván'.