"wunian" meaning in Old English

See wunian in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈwu.ni.ɑn/
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *wunēn. Etymology templates: {{dercat|ang|gem-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*wunēn}} Proto-West Germanic *wunēn Head templates: {{ang-verb}} wunian Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|wunian<w2>}} Forms: weak [table-tags], wunian [infinitive], wunienne [infinitive], wuniġe [first-person, present, singular], wunode [first-person, past, singular], wunast [present, second-person, singular], wunodest [past, second-person, singular], wunaþ [present, singular, third-person], wunode [past, singular, third-person], wuniaþ [plural, present], wunodon [past, plural], wuniġe [present, singular], wunode [past, singular], wuniġen [plural, present], wunoden [past, plural], wuna [imperative, past, present, singular], wuniaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], wuniende [imperative, present], wunod [imperative, past], ġewunod [imperative, past]
  1. to live somewhere
    Sense id: en-wunian-ang-verb-tr9C79mK
  2. to stay somewhere
    Sense id: en-wunian-ang-verb-7PQXSMw7
  3. to live or be in a certain condition
    Sense id: en-wunian-ang-verb-b4DzZnEQ
  4. to be located somewhere
    Sense id: en-wunian-ang-verb-6tY-ia-L
  5. to consist
    Sense id: en-wunian-ang-verb-qTBlv41K
  6. to remain, last, continue, endure
    Sense id: en-wunian-ang-verb-wZQVjhXa
  7. to exist
    Sense id: en-wunian-ang-verb-n-Jbd-ah Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 5 5 17 23 5 9 37
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ġewunian, þurhwunian, wunung

Inflected forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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    }
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      ],
      "text": "Middle English: wonen, woniȝen"
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          "expansion": "English: won, wone",
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  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *wunēn.",
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      "source": "conjugation",
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      "source": "conjugation",
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      "form": "wunian",
      "source": "conjugation",
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    {
      "form": "wunienne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
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      "form": "wuniġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
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      "form": "wunode",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "singular"
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      "form": "wunast",
      "source": "conjugation",
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      "form": "wunodest",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wunaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "wunode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "wuniaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "wunodon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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      "tags": [
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
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      "form": "wunoden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wuna",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "wuniaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wuniende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wunod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġewunod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "ang",
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        {
          "english": "Where do you live?",
          "text": "Hwǣr wunast þū?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I live in the city, my brother in the country.",
          "text": "Iċ wuniġe on þǣre byrġ, mīn brōðor on þǣm lande.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "My sister still lives with our parents.",
          "text": "Mīn sweostor wunaþ ġīet mid ūrum ieldrum.",
          "type": "example"
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        "to live somewhere"
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        {
          "english": "He stayed in the hospital overnight.",
          "text": "Hē wunode ofer niht on þǣm lǣċehūse.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Then said the abbot and all the brothers, that no more monks could dwell there...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Saint Maur, Abbot\"\nÞā ġecwæþð sē abbod and ealle þā ġebrōðra þæt þēr ne mihte nā mā munuca wunian...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Jesus was staying in the temple from this day till now on Thursday, and both with doctrine and with miracles stimulated the people to truth and to right faith.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"For Palm Sunday\"\nSe Hælend wæs wunigende binnan ðam temple of ðisum dæge oð nu on ðunres-dæg, and ægðer ge mid láre ge mid wundrum þæt folc tihte to soðfæstnysse and to rihtum geleafan.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "to stay somewhere"
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      "links": [
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          "stay",
          "stay"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "We live in hope.",
          "text": "Wē wuniaþ on hyhte.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Justice does not consist in the law.",
          "text": "Rihtwīsnes ne wunaþ on ǣ.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "a date which will live in infamy",
          "text": "tælmearc þe wunaþ on unhlīsan",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to live or be in a certain condition"
      ],
      "id": "en-wunian-ang-verb-b4DzZnEQ",
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          "live",
          "live"
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        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Tell me where the cross lies.",
          "text": "Cynewulf, Elene\nSæġe mē hwǣr sēo rōd wuniġe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be located somewhere"
      ],
      "id": "en-wunian-ang-verb-6tY-ia-L",
      "links": [
        [
          "located",
          "located"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to consist"
      ],
      "id": "en-wunian-ang-verb-qTBlv41K",
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          "consist",
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    },
    {
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        {
          "english": "You will last forever, always, Lord; the memory of you will endure while the world stands.",
          "roman": "Þū on ēcnesse wunast, āwa, Dryhten; wunaþ þīn ġemynd þenden weorold stent.",
          "text": "Psalm 102:12",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "She went not wandering through the land, but remained patiently within God's temple.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Purification of St. Mary\"\nNe ferde heo wórigende geond land, ac wæs wunigende geþyldelice binnan Godes temple.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "to remain, last, continue, endure"
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        {
          "english": "God exists in Trinity indivisible, and in unity of one Godhead, for the Father is one, the Son is one, the Holy Ghost is one; and yet of these three there is one Godhead, and like glory, and coeternal majesty.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"Of the Catholic Faith\"\nSe God wunað on Ðrynnysse úntodæledlic, and on ánnysse ánre Godcundnysse, soðlice oðer is se Fæder, oðer is se Sunu, oðer is se Halga Gast; ac þeah-hwæðere ðæra ðreora is án Godcundnys, and gelíc wuldor, and efen-ece mægenðrymnys.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈwu.ni.ɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wunian"
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    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
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        "singular"
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          "english": "Where do you live?",
          "text": "Hwǣr wunast þū?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I live in the city, my brother in the country.",
          "text": "Iċ wuniġe on þǣre byrġ, mīn brōðor on þǣm lande.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "My sister still lives with our parents.",
          "text": "Mīn sweostor wunaþ ġīet mid ūrum ieldrum.",
          "type": "example"
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        "to live somewhere"
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          "english": "He stayed in the hospital overnight.",
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          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Then said the abbot and all the brothers, that no more monks could dwell there...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Saint Maur, Abbot\"\nÞā ġecwæþð sē abbod and ealle þā ġebrōðra þæt þēr ne mihte nā mā munuca wunian...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Jesus was staying in the temple from this day till now on Thursday, and both with doctrine and with miracles stimulated the people to truth and to right faith.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"For Palm Sunday\"\nSe Hælend wæs wunigende binnan ðam temple of ðisum dæge oð nu on ðunres-dæg, and ægðer ge mid láre ge mid wundrum þæt folc tihte to soðfæstnysse and to rihtum geleafan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "to stay somewhere"
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          "stay",
          "stay"
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        "Old English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "We live in hope.",
          "text": "Wē wuniaþ on hyhte.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Justice does not consist in the law.",
          "text": "Rihtwīsnes ne wunaþ on ǣ.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "a date which will live in infamy",
          "text": "tælmearc þe wunaþ on unhlīsan",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to live or be in a certain condition"
      ],
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          "live",
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          "be",
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        {
          "english": "Tell me where the cross lies.",
          "text": "Cynewulf, Elene\nSæġe mē hwǣr sēo rōd wuniġe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be located somewhere"
      ],
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        [
          "located",
          "located"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to consist"
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        [
          "consist",
          "consist"
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        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "You will last forever, always, Lord; the memory of you will endure while the world stands.",
          "roman": "Þū on ēcnesse wunast, āwa, Dryhten; wunaþ þīn ġemynd þenden weorold stent.",
          "text": "Psalm 102:12",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "She went not wandering through the land, but remained patiently within God's temple.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Purification of St. Mary\"\nNe ferde heo wórigende geond land, ac wæs wunigende geþyldelice binnan Godes temple.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to remain, last, continue, endure"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "remain",
          "remain"
        ],
        [
          "last",
          "last"
        ],
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "endure",
          "endure"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "God exists in Trinity indivisible, and in unity of one Godhead, for the Father is one, the Son is one, the Holy Ghost is one; and yet of these three there is one Godhead, and like glory, and coeternal majesty.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"Of the Catholic Faith\"\nSe God wunað on Ðrynnysse úntodæledlic, and on ánnysse ánre Godcundnysse, soðlice oðer is se Fæder, oðer is se Sunu, oðer is se Halga Gast; ac þeah-hwæðere ðæra ðreora is án Godcundnys, and gelíc wuldor, and efen-ece mægenðrymnys.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to exist"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exist",
          "exist"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwu.ni.ɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wunian"
}

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