woning.
A place to live; a dwelling; a dwelling-place; an abode.
Meaning & usage
A place to live; a dwelling; a dwelling-place; an abode.
Where this word comes from
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”).
present participle and gerund of wone
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