weird

Signification (English)

1. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
2. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
3. Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
4. Of or pertaining to the Fates.
5. Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
6. Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
7. Having supernatural or preternatural power.

strange

odd

be strange

feel sick

stange

very strange

losing common sense

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwɪə(ɹ)d/

Cognate with islandais

Cognate with ancien anglais

In summary

From 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”). Doublet of wyrd. More at worth. Obsolete by the 16th century in English, but reintroduced from Middle Scots weird, whence Shakespeare borrowed it in naming the Weird Sisters (originally Weyward Sisters, the Three Witches), reintroducing it to English. The senses “abnormal”, “strange” etc. arose via reinterpretation of Weird Sisters and date from after this reintroduction.

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