Weird
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| *[["Weird Al" Yankovic]] (born 1959), American musician and parodist | *[["Weird Al" Yankovic]] (born 1959), American musician and parodist | ||
| *[[Weird fiction]], speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century | *[[Weird fiction]], speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century | ||
| - | *[[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== | ==Etymology== | ||
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- Having supernatural or preternatural power.
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Weird may refer to:
- "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American musician and parodist
- Weird fiction, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century
- 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
- New Weird America, a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s
- Weirdo
- Wyrd, an Anglo-Saxon concept of fate
See also (2)
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