wone
wone · wones
A house, home, habitation, dwellingA house, home, habitation, dwelling.
Meaning
2 senses(obsolete, poetic)A house, home, habitation, dwelling.
жили́щеžilíšče
(obsolete, poetic)Wealth, riches.
Translations
3 languagesРусский
a dwelling:
Origin
From Middle English wone, variant of wane, from Old Norse ván (“hope, expectation”). The sFrom 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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