Origin and history of wone

"accustomed, in the habit of," a contraction by c. 1400 of Old English wunod, past participle of wunian "to dwell, inhabit, exist; be accustomed, be used to," from Proto-Germanic *wunen "to be content, to rejoice," reconstructed (Watkins) to be from PIE root *wen- (1) "to desire, strive for."

Germanic cognates include Old Saxon wunon, Old Frisian wonia "to dwell, remain, be used to," Old High German wonen, German wohnen "to dwell;" if the PIE is correct the original meaning of the Germanic verbs was "be content, rejoice." It is related to win (v.) and wean.

Hence, as a verb, "make accustomed" (to), mid-15c.; "be accustomed, use" (1540s). Compare wonted. Also see wone.

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to desire, strive for."

It might form all or part of: vanadium; Vanir; venerate; veneration; venerable; venereal; venery (n.1) "pursuit of sexual pleasure;" venery (n.2) "hunting, the sports of the chase;" venial; venison; venom; Venus; wean; ween; Wend "Slavic people of eastern Germany;" win; winsome; wish; wont; wynn.

It might also be the source of: Sanskrit veti "follows after," vanas- "desire," vanati "desires, loves, wins;" Avestan vanaiti "he wishes, is victorious;" Latin venerari "to worship," venus "love, sexual desire; loveliness, beauty;" Old English wynn "joy," wunian "to dwell," wenian "to accustom, train, wean," wyscan "to wish."