Meaning

noun fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters

adjective suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; ; ; - John Galsworthy; ; - Henry Kingsley

adjective strikingly odd or unusual; - Bram Stoker

originFrom Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Icelandic urður (“fate”). Related to Old English weorþan (“to become”); more at worth (verb). Doublet of wyrd, a reborrowing of the original sense and spelling. Obsolete by the 16th…

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