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

Declension of ġewuna (weak)

Case	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.