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*[[Weird number]], a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect *[[Weird number]], a natural number that is abundant but not semiperfect
*''[[The Weird]]'', a 2012 anthology of weird fiction *''[[The Weird]]'', a 2012 anthology of weird fiction
- +==Etymology==
 +From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd, wurd ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed"), from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz (“fate, destiny”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Middle Low German wrd, wrth ("fate, death"), Middle High German wurt ("fate, death"), Icelandic urður ("fate"). Related to Old English weorþan ("to become"). More at worth.
==See also== ==See also==
*[[New Weird America]], a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s *[[New Weird America]], a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s

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  1. Having supernatural or preternatural power.
  2. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
  3. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

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Etymology

From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd, wurd ("that which happens, fate, chance, fortune, destiny, Fate, the Fates, Providence, event, phenomenon, transaction, fact, deed"), from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz (“fate, destiny”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Middle Low German wrd, wrth ("fate, death"), Middle High German wurt ("fate, death"), Icelandic urður ("fate"). Related to Old English weorþan ("to become"). More at worth.

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