Does the word "weird" come from a Celtic word wyyrrd, that refered to knowledge of nature religion?

Question

I love how words have truer meanings. Like people used it because they didn't understand it? Lynn Andrews book, Woman of Wyyrrd?

Answer 1

Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon and Nordic culture roughly corresponding to fate. It is ancestral to Modern English weird, which has acquired a very different meaning. The cognate term in old Norse is urðr, with a similar meaning, but also personalized as one of the Norns, Urðr (anglicized Urd). The concept corresponding to "fate" in Old Norse is Ørlǫg.

Old English wyrd is, derived from Proto-Germanic *wurþiz, Proto-Indo-European *wrti-, a verbal abstract from the root *wert- "to turn" (Latin vertere), related to the Old English verb weorþan, meaning "to grow into, to become" (compare German werden). In its literal sense, it refers to "that which turns out, that which comes to pass".

Modern English weird developed its sense from weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (Shakespeare in Macbeth has the three witches so called). They were usually portrayed as odd or uncanny in appearance, which led to the adjectival meaning (first recorded 1815).

The term ørlǫg is from ór "out, from, beyond" and lǫg "law", and may be interpreted literally as "beyond law", or as "fundamental/absolute/primary law".

Answer 2

The Celtic word Wydd means; to have knowledge of, but i can also be used in direct reference to a wood.
The word Wyrd is Anglo Saxon or Teutonic and relates to fate or destiny. This is in the state of being, so it is what is now, what is past, and that which shall be. It is the inevitable turns of life and the continuous thread.
The concept of this was not always understood by later Christian society maybe this how it became connected or transformed to the word weird.

Answer 3

Don't you love it when people just make up facts? Wyrd is an Old English word, and Old English is rooted in the Germanic languages brought over by the Anglo-Saxons. The wyrd is part of Norse belief and relates to fate. It has nothing to do with the Celts.

Answer 4

Nope.

No such word in Gaelic that I know of.

Though, I'll bet it MIGHT come from the Germanic word "Wyrd" meaning roughly the same thing.

Answer 5

I have both Celt language courses and a dictionary. I have yet to find Wyyrrd. By the word's structure is it possible it is a misspelled Welsh word?

Answer 6

no idea! all i know is that its the one and only word i never spell properly! and when i spell it i know its wrong but i never remember if the i or the e comes first :( :(

its just one of those things il never catch onto!

Answer 7

if you look at the etymology below, it appears to be related.