Ge-wyrd

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-wyrd

fate. Add; es; n. :-- Conditio, i. status, natura, sors, regula, lex gescæp, gewyrd, gescæft, gebyrd, Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 62. [In view of the Latin words (regula, lex) in this gloss perhaps the passage Men. 66, given in Dict. under gewyrde, should be taken here. See, too, VII below.] I. fortune :-- Gewyrdes fortunae, An. Ox. 2628. II. one of the Fates :-- Gewyrda Parcarum, An. Ox. 5480. III. what happens, an event. Cf. ge-weorþan ; I. 3 :-- Hēr sagad ymb dās mǣran gewyrd þe tō þyssum dæge geweard, þætte ælmihtig Dryhten sylfa on þās world ācenned wæs . . . Be þysse gewyrde þe wē tōdæg weordiad ealle Godes hālige sǣdon, Verc. Först. 96, 3-II. Gewyrde (secundum) historiam, An. Ox. 8, 15 a (II, gewyrd-wrītere). Ge-wyrda fata, i. fortuna, eventus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 147, 28. Cf. Gewyrd fatus, ta, tum (ut rerum tibi fata latentia solvant, Aid. 153, 9), An. Ox. 18 b, 32. IV. what is made, an effect. Cf. ge-weorþan ; I. 2 :-- Gewyrde effectibus (operum), An. Ox. II, 124. V. what happens to a person or thing, a condition assigned by fate :-- Fore giwyrd līchomes foerde wē ongeton from the condition of mortality imposed upon the flesh we know she has departed; quam pro conditione carnis migrasse cognovi-mus, Rtl. 66, 37. Gewyrdum fatis (cf. gewyrd[um] fatis (si hoc carneum animae ergastulum ante fatis crudescentibus non obierit, Ald. 80, 17), An. Ox. 5479), Wrt. Voc. ii. 147, 26. VI. what pleases a person, what seems fit, pleasure, v. ge-weorþan; V. l a [cf. ? O. H. Ger. ge-wurt oblectatio, delectatio] :-- Hit is of heora āgenre gewyrde thorn-bar; ꝥ hié secgad what they say is of their own good pleasure, Ors. 3, 9; S. 126, 33. VII. what is agreed upon, a condition, stipulation, v. ge-weorþan ; V. i b :-- Conditio gecwide vel gewyrd (or perhaps to be taken under gewyrd speech?) stipulatio gehāt, Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 54. ge-wyrd

Related words: ge-wyrdelic;