gewuna

From Proto-Germanic *gawunô (“habit, wont”), equivalent to ġe- +‎ wuna.

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.

   • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year

     Rōmanisc̄e lēodan ongynnað heora ġēar æfter hǣðenum ġewunan on winterlīċere tīde. Ebrei healdað heora geares annginn on lenctenlīcre emnihte. Đā Grēcisċan onginnað hyra ġēar æt ðām sunnstede; ⁊ ða Egiptisċan on hærfest.

     The Roman people begin theirs, after the heathen custom, in the winter time. The Hebrews observe the beginning of their year on the vernal equinox. The Greeks begin their year at the solstice; and the Egyptians in the fall.

2. ritual
3. habit, wont

Weak:

• bewuna

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-wuna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.