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wynd

English

Etymology

From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (to wind, proceed, go). Compare also Old English ?ewind; Old Norse venda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wa?nd/

Noun

wynd (plural wynds)

  1. (chiefly Scotland) A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Archibald Constable and Company:
      Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of us; but we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or wynds, as they call them in Scotland.
    • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 637:
      He flew through the moonlight streets, clattering over cobbles, darting down narrow alleys and up twisty wynds, racing to his love.
    • 2010, Tom Dyckhoff, The Guardian, 10 Jul 2010:
      Stirling's called an Edinburgh mini-me: the same winding wynds, the same historic core, castle, looming romantic hills. Only a lot cheaper.
  2. (Ireland, dated) A stack of hay.

Synonyms

  • (narrow lane): See Thesaurus:alley
  • (stack of hay): hayrick, haystack

Anagrams

  • W.D.N.Y.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (to wind, proceed, go). Compare also Old English ?ewind; Old Norse venda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /w?ind/

Noun

wynd (plural wynds)

  1. alley, lane, wynd

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

wynd m

  1. wind

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wyrd

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English wyrd. Doublet of weird.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /w??d/, IPA(key): /w?d/[1], IPA(key): /wi?d/[2], [3]

Noun

wyrd (countable and uncountable, plural wyrds)

  1. Fate, destiny, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse context.
    • 1983, Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer, Century:
      Wyrd is too vast, too complex for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.
    • 1992, Fred Alan Wolf, The eagle's quest: a physicist's search for truth in the heart of the shamanic world, Simon and Schuster, page 51:
      I had journeyed back to England as part of my research on this book to meet with two Englishmen who were practicing Anglo-Saxon shamans who had been researching and practicing the sounds and ways of wyrd.
    • 2009, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Bones of the Dragon: Volume 1, Macmillan, page 78:
      His three sisters sat, beneath the tree, one twisting the wyrd on her distaff, one spinning the wyrd on her wheel, one weaving the wyrds of gods and men on her loom.

See also

  • wyrd folk

Old English

Alternative forms

  • wird, wurd

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrti-, a verbal abstract from the root *wert- (to turn) (whence Latin vertere), related to the Old English verb weorþan (to grow into, become) (compare 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/, [wyr?d]

Noun

wyrd f

  1. fate, destiny
    • Beowulf, line 455
  2. (in the plural) the Fates
  3. event, occurrence

Declension

Synonyms

  • ?ifeþe
  • ?esceaft

Related terms

  • Wyrd

Descendants

  • Middle English: wurde, wyrde, wirde, wierde, werde, wyrede
    • English: weird
    • Scots: weird
  • ? English: wyrd

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