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weird (noun, adjective) –
noun:
1 : fate, destiny
2 : soothsayer
adjective:
1 : of strange or extraordinary character
2 : of, relating to, or caused by witchcraft or the supernatural
Source : Online Etymology Dictionary
Etymology : Noun. Middle English wird, werd, going back to Old English wyrd, going back to Germanic *wurdi- “fate, chance” (whence Old Saxon wur? “fate,” Old High German wurt, Old Norse urðr), derivative from the base of *wer- “to come about, happen, become”
Adjective. The sense “uncanny, supernatural” developed from Middle English use of weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (in Germanic mythology), the goddesses who controlled human destiny. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance, as in “Macbeth” (and especially in 18th and 19th century productions of it), which led to the adjectival meaning “odd-looking, uncanny” (1815); “odd, strange, disturbingly different” (1820). Related: Weirdly; weirdness.
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