woning
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near it is a timbered house; an old inn close to the bridge is thought to be the "woning" of "Elynor Humming," the famous ale wife, whose "tunning" is celebrated by Hen. VII.'s poet laureate, Skelton."
- "[…] ordained as a place and a woning for the Holy Ghost, and as of Christ able and possible for to come to endless bliss."
Etymology
From Middle English woning, wuning, wunnunge, from Old English wunung (“act of dwelling, living, dwelling, habitation, inner room of a dwelling”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunungu, equivalent to wone + -ing. Cognate with Scots wonnyng, wonyng, wonyn (“habitation, dwelling, shelter”), Dutch woning (“dwelling, house”), German Wohnung (“dwelling, apartment”), Swedish våning (“floor, apartment, flat”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: woning, wunung, *wunungu
Usage
Inflected Forms
wonings (plural)
wonning (alternative)
Phrases
woning-place
woning-stead