Wone vs Wong - What's the difference?
wone | wong |
(obsolete, or, archaic, poetic) A dwelling.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), '', Volume 2, vii:20 (''see also xii:11)
* 1748 , , I:XXXVII
(obsolete, or, archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.
* 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17
* 1596 , '', Volume 2, iii:18 (''see also i:51, vii:49, ix:52, and xii:69)
As a noun wone
is (obsolete|or|archaic|poetic) a dwelling or wone can be (obsolete|poetic) a house, home, habitation or wone can be custom, habit, practice.As a verb wone
is (obsolete|or|archaic|dialectal) to live, reside, stay.As a proper noun wong is
of chinese origin.wone
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
* won, wonneNoun
(en noun)- What secret place (quoth he) can safely hold
- So huge a masse, and hide from heaven's eye?
- Or where hast thou thy wonne , that so much gold
- Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery?
- On the cool height awhile out Palmers ?tay,
- And ?pite even of them?elves their Sen?es chear;
- Then to the Wizard's Wonne their Steps they ?teer.
Verb
(won)- Then we entered the city and found all who therein woned into black stones enstoned.
- For now the best and noblest knight alive
- Prince Arthur is, that wonnes in Faerie Lond;
- He hath a sword, that flames like burning brond.