Wyrdとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from 古期英語 wyrd. Doublet of weird.

発音

• IPA: /wɪəd/, /wɝd/, /wiɚd/
• 異形同音異義語: word, weird, Word

名詞

wyrd (countable and uncountable, plural wyrds)

1. Fate, destiny, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse context.

   Synonyms: orlay, weird; see also Thesaurus:fate

   • 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.

参考

• wyrd folk

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ti-, a verbal abstract from the root *wert- (“to turn”) .

Related to Latin vertere, the 古期英語 verb weorþan (“to grow into, become”), Dutch worden, German werden. Cognate with Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt, Old Norse urðr (“fate”) (Old Norse Urðr (“one of 3 norns”)).

発音

• IPA: /wyrd/, [wyrˠd]

名詞

wyrd f

1. fate, destiny
   • Beowulf, line 455b

     Gǣð ā wyrd swā hīo sċel.

     Fate always goes as it must.

2. (in the plural) the Fates
3. event, occurrence
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' Metres of Boethius, lines 226-238

     Ne þearf lēoda nān wēnan þǣre wyrde, þæt weriġe flǣsc þæt mōd monna ǣniġes, eallunga tō him æfter mæġ onwendan; ac þā unþēawas ǣlces mōdes, and þ inġeþonc ǣlces monnes þone līchoman līt þider hit wille.

     Nor needs any man expect that event, that the vile flesh the mind of any man, Altogether to it should ever turn; but the vices of every mind, and the thought of every man, leads the body Whither it will.

語形変化

Strong i-stem:

同意語

• ġifeþe
• ġesceaft
• ġewife
• ġewyrd
• belimp

派生語

関連する語

• Wyrd

派生した語

• Middle English: werde, weerde, weird, werd, werede, werid, wierde, wired, wird, wirde, wired, wirid, word, wyerde, wyrde
  • English: werd, weard (obsolete)
  • Middle Scots: weird, werd
    • Scots: weird
    • → English: weird
• → English: wyrd (learned)