gewuna

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gawunô (“habit, wont”).

Noun

ġewuna m

1. 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.

2. ritual
3. habit, wont

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	ġewuna	ġewunan
accusative	ġewunan	ġewunan
genitive	ġewunan	ġewunena
dative	ġewunan	ġewunum

Related terms

• bewuna

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-wuna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.