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Where does “iwoned” come from?

iwoned (Middle English) comes from Old English ġewunod, from Old English ġewunian, from Old English ġē, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

Ancestry of “iwoned”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishġewunod—
2Old Englishġewunian—
3Old Englishġēye
4Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
5Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
6Proto-Germanic-hwe—
7Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
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