Wohnung German · revision 35319

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 830, Old High German Tatian|origins=gem-pro *wunāną}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈvoːnʊŋ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''Wohnung''' ''f'' (genitive Wohnung, plural Wohnungen)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|gmh|wonunge|t=dwelling, abode; region; habit]], [[inh|goh|wonunga|t=dwelling]], a noun formed with [[m|goh|-unga]] from the verb [[m|goh|wonēn|t=to dwell, stay]], the ancestor of [[wohnen]].^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Kluge 2011|994)^(Wiktionary) The same formation is [[gml|woninge]] and [[nl|woning|t=house, dwelling]].^(DWB|30, 1230)^(Wiktionary)

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+ The verb is [[gem-pro|*wunāną]], found also in [[osx|wonon]], [[ang|wunian|t=to dwell, remain]] and [[ofs|wonia]].^(Kluge 2011|994)^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Kroonen 2013) Beside it stand [[non|una|t=to be content]] and [[got|𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃|tr=unwunands|t=troubled, unhappy]], so that “to be content” can be taken as the common starting point; with ablaut, [[gewöhnen]] and [[gewohnt]] belong here.^(Kluge 2011|994)^(Kroonen 2013)^(Pfeifer 1993) Kluge and Pfeifer connect the whole group with [[gewinnen]] and [[Wonne]] and the root [[ine-pro|*wenh₁-|t=to strive, wish, love]], so that the meaning would have gone from “to like, be pleased” by way of “to be used to” to “to stay at a familiar place”.^(Kluge 2011|994)^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Duden 7 2007)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Old High German ''wonunga'' is found in the Tatian (about 830) and in glosses, meaning “dwelling, abode, stay”.^(Köbler AHD)^(Schützeichel 2012|399) The Grimms' dictionary knows only a single Old High German example, in the Tatian.^(DWB|30, 1230) Otfrid uses a different formation, ''woni''.^(Adelung 1793)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Middle High German ''wonunge'' meant staying or residence, but also a region or climate, as when Konrad von Megenberg says a tree does not grow ''in unserr wonung'', in our part of the world, and in law books also “habit”.^(Lexer 1872|3, 976)^(Duden GWDS 1999) The abstract sense, the act of living or staying somewhere, was the commoner one in the older language, while the concrete sense, a dwelling, prevails in New High German.^(DWB|30, 1230)

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+ Adelung (1793) distinguishes three senses: a permanent stay at a place, the place one lives in (houses, palaces, huts, caves), and, in a narrower sense, the part of a building in which one family lives, so that a house may have four ''Wohnungen''.^(Adelung 1793) The last is the main sense today.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 830 – The Old High German Tatian uses ''wonunga''.^(Köbler AHD)^(DWB|30, 1230)

+ * 1346 – A pilgrim's account speaks of the 40 years' ''wonung'' of the Israelites in the desert.^(DWB|30, 1230)

+ * 1598 – A Latin dictionary renders ''commoratio'' as ''wohnung, verharrung ein zeitlang'', a stay for a time.^(DWB|30, 1230)

+ * 1793 – Adelung records the sense “part of a building where one family lives”.^(Adelung 1793)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|flat]] or [[m|en|apartment]]: a set of rooms in a building, closed off from the rest, where a person or household lives: ''Ihre neue Wohnung liegt im vierten Stock.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A place to live in general, [[m|en|lodging]], [[m|en|accommodation]]: ''Die Erntehelfer bekamen Verpflegung und Wohnung.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[wohnungslos]]

+ * [[Wohnungssuche]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[wohnen]]

+ * [[gewohnt]]

+ * [[gewöhnen]]

+ * [[Wonne]]

+ * [[nl|woning]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Wohnung nehmen'' “to take up quarters” is elevated and dated.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}