Save Gender Feminine Usage History (Ecclesiastical) Pronounced Pron. WOO-nah(History) [key·IPA] Meaning & History Either derived from Old High German wunna "bliss, delight, pleasure" or from Old English wuna "habit, custom; practice, rite". Saint Wuna of Wessex was a 7th and 8th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and Christian saint.