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"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"the Fates"
],
"links": [
[
"Fates",
"Fates"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in the plural) the Fates"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"in-plural"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Old English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "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.",
"roman": "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.",
"text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' Metres of Boethius, lines 226-238",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"event, occurrence"
],
"links": [
[
"event",
"event"
],
[
"occurrence",
"occurrence"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wyrd/"
},
{
"ipa": "[wyrˠd]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ġifeþe"
},
{
"word": "ġesceaft"
},
{
"tags": [
"Kentish"
],
"word": "*werd"
},
{
"word": "weord"
}
],
"word": "wyrd"
}
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