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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-489/
- Published: 2021-06-01T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-15T19:36:45.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

The word for today is…  
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](https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=weird&ref=goodoil.news)

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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