Wyrd vs. Weird

Wyrdnoun

Fate, destiny, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse context.

Weirdadjective

(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

Wyrdnoun

Fate personified; one of the three Weird Sisters

Weirdadjective

(archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.

Wyrd

Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird, which retains its original meaning only dialectically.

Weirdadjective

(archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

Weirdadjective

(archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.

‘There was a weird light shining above the hill.’;

Weirdadjective

Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

‘There are lots of weird people in this place.’;

Weirdadjective

Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

‘It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.’;

Weirdnoun

(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.

Weirdnoun

A prediction.

Weirdnoun

A spell or charm.

Weirdnoun

That which comes to pass; a fact.

Weirdnoun

The Fates (personified).

Weirdverb

(transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

Weirdverb

(transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.

Weirdnoun

Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.

Weirdnoun

A spell or charm.

Weirdadjective

Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.

Weirdadjective

Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.

‘Myself too had weird seizures.’; ‘Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.’; ‘The weird sisters, hand in hand,Posters of the sea and land.’;

Weirdverb

To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.

Weirdnoun

Fate personified; one of the three Weird Sisters

Weirdadjective

suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;

‘an eldritch screech’; ‘the three weird sisters’; ‘stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures’; ‘an unearthly light’; ‘he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din’;

Weirdadjective

strikingly odd or unusual;

‘some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow’;