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noun
Fate, destiny.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Germanic, countable, no-plural, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, paganism, religion
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Synonyms: weird, wyrd, chance, destin, destiny, doom, fatality, fate, foredoom, foreordination, fortune, kismet, lot, orlay, portion, predestination, predestiny, preordination, qadar
Antonyms: none provided
History
Learned borrowing from Old English orlæġ (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *oʀlag, *uʀlag, from Proto-Germanic *uzlagą (“destiny; fate”, literally “that which is laid out; out-lay; plan; design”). For more, see Old English or-, English lay.
