Name: 英語の家庭教師ニックPの単語の起源 (61) 気持ち悪い (English Tutor Nick P Word Origins (61) Weird)
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Hi this is this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origin 61. The  word origin today is

weird. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. The origin of this word dates all

the way back to the Greek and Roman mythology,  especially Greek. It originally

started in Greek.  Remember that the Romans conquered the

Greeks and they adopted all their mythology anyway. But it really started in Greek

mythology and was used to mean fate or destiny.  That was...  that's what the

original word meant.  It eventually involved into someone who

controlled another person's fate due to the three ancient virgin goddesses called

The Fates. Yeah. So they supposedly had control of people's fate or destiny. This

also continued in Norse mythology.  Remember Norse mythology that's the one

in like the Scandinavian area you know,  the one where today we probably mostly

think if it connected to somebody like Thor,  the superhero.  Thor and Odin and

Loki . They all come from Norse mythology. Okay. But remember that was

very far north and then that also had an effect on England or the British because

you know they got to hear about that. And we're described as odd and scary in

appearance. Okay. They started to be referred to as the Weird Sisters and

they were often associated with witchcraft. The old British word weird

well they used to spell at W-Y -R-D eventually evolved into the word

weird today.  You know the way we spell today W-E-I- R-D.

Okay. Let's continue.  Shakespeare used this idea as well in his famous play

Macbeth. And that's one of his more famous plays too. The three witches were

based on The Fates.  That's where he kind of got the idea

from or maybe through the Norse mythology as well and were considered to

be prophets who predicted Macbeth's rise to becoming King. Okay. There used to be

another meaning from an 1828 dictionary for weird meaning skilled in witchcraft.

So,  so that idea held on for a long time.  Although we don't really associate it

with witchcraft today but you know,  that's in part of its history. This led

to our modern definition of weird meaning very strange or uncanny.

Well uncanny means kind of like not natural or mysterious. So this is how it

evolved into this meaning that we have today. Okay. Anyway,  I hope you enjoyed it.

I hope you felt it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.