wyrd

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Old English wyrd. Doublet of weird. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /wɪəd/, /wɝd/, /wiɚd/ Homophones: word, weird, Word === Noun === wyrd (countable and uncountable, plural wyrds) Fate, destiny, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse context. Synonyms: orlay, weird; see also Thesaurus:fate === See also === wyrd folk == Old English == === Alternative forms === werd — late Kentish weord === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ti-, a verbal abstract from the root *wert- (“to turn”) . Related to Latin vertere, the Old English verb weorþan (“to grow into, become”), Dutch worden, German werden. Cognate with Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt, Old Norse urðr (“fate”) (Old Norse Urðr (“one of 3 norns”)). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /wyrd/, [wyrˠd] Rhymes: -yrd === Noun === wyrd f fate, destiny Beowulf, line 455b (in the plural) the Fates event, occurrence late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' Metres of Boethius, lines 226-238 ==== Declension ==== Strong i-stem: ==== Synonyms ==== ġifeþe ġesċeaft ġewīfe ġewyrd belimp ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== Wyrd ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: werde, weerde, weird, werd, werede, werid, wierde, wired, wird, wirde, wired, wirid, word, wyerde, wyrdeEnglish: werd, weard (obsolete)Middle Scots: weird, werdScots: weird→ English: weird → English: wyrd (learned)