WYRD
[noun]
1. fate personified, e.g. the Three Witches in Macbeth, the Moirai, the Norns.
2. fate; destiny.
3. an event; occurrence.
Etymology: from Old English wyrd, weird. From Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wrti-, a verbal abstract from the root *wert- (“to turn”) ( > Latin vertere), related to the Old English verb weorþan (“to grow into, become”) (compare German werden). Cognate with Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt, Old Norse urðr.