wunung

From Proto-West Germanic *wunungu, equivalent to wunian +‎ -ung. Cognate with Old Saxon wonunga, Old High German wonunga (German Wohnung).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.nunɡ/, [ˈwu.nuŋɡ]

wunung f

1. residence, home, dwelling.: place to stay or live
   • early 12th century, Life of St. Neot

     Hē him þǣr wununge ġetimbrode on swīðe fæġre stōwe.

     He built himself a home there in a very beautiful place.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"

     and gif we forleosað þas lænan woruld-þingc, þonne sceole we witan þæt ure wunung nis na her ac is on heofonum gif we hopiað to gode.

     and if we lose the transitory things of this world, then should we know that our dwelling is not here, but is in heaven, if we hope in God.

2. staying or living in a certain place
   • c. 973, Æthelwold, translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict

     Ġif hēo eft on ǣniġne tīman hīe selfe tō mynstres wununge ġefæstnian wile, ne sīe nā hiere ġewilnung onsċunod.

     If at any time she wants to re-commit herself to monastic life, her desire should not be shunned.

3. existence, life
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul"

     Sē is libbende god þe hæfþ līf and wununge þurh hine selfne.

     He is the living god who has life and existence through himself.

• inwunung
• midwunung
• onwunung
• samodwunung
• þurhwunung

• Middle English: wununge, wunnunge, wuning, woning, wonyng
  • English: woning
  • Scots: wonnyng, wonyng, wonyn

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wunung”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.