gewuna
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *gawunô (“habit, wont”).
Noun[edit]
ġewuna m
- custom
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Greater Litany"
- Þa bead se biscop Mamertus ðreora daga fæsten, and sēo ġedreccednys ða ġeswac; and se ġewuna ðæs fæstenes ðurhwunað ġehwǣr on ġelēaffulre ġelaðunge.
- Then the bishop Mamertus commanded a fast of three days, and the affliction ceased; and the custom of the fast continues everywhere in the faithful church.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Greater Litany"
- ritual
- habit, wont
Declension[edit]
Declension of gewuna (weak)
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-wuna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.