wont

Meanings

Noun

• One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.

Adjective

• Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).

Verb

• To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
• To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).

Origin

• Origin uncertain; apparently a conflation of wone and wont (participle adjective, below). Compare German Low German Gewohnte and Dutch gewoonte. Likely related to wone, wonder, wean, and win, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- ("to wish for, strive for, pursue; to succeed, win"); more there.
• From Middle English wont, iwoned, from Old English ġewunod, past participle of ġewunian. The verb is derived from the adjective.