Hotaru is a guy.
-UM is a masculine/neuter ending in latin, just thought I'd point that out (any eunuch jokes will mean I break out the handheld tactical thermonuclear anti-pie launcher :twisted: :twisted: )
"wyrd" has another meaning? as in "begone, wyrd sisters" (macbeth)
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ah. Wyrd: ahem.
Noun 1. Wyrd - Fate personified; one of the three Weird Sisters
2. Weird
3. Anglo-Saxon deity - (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons (:roll
Weird: ahem.
adj. weird·er, weird·est
Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural.
Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.
Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil.
often Weird Greek & Roman Mythology. One of the Fates.
tr. & intr.v. weird·ed, weird·ing, weirds
Slang. To experience or cause to experience an odd, unusual, and sometimes uneasy sensation. Often used with out.
[Middle English werde, fate, having power to control fate, from Old English wyrd, fate. See wer-2 in Indo-European Roots.]
weirdly adv.
weirdness n.
Synonyms: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly
These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, or merely the odd or unusual: “The person of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “There is a weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires fear or uneasiness and implies a sinister influence: “At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold” (Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling: “The queer stumps... had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry Kingsley).
weird
\Weird\ (w[=e]rd), n. [OE. wirde, werde, AS. wyrd fate, fortune, one of the Fates, fr. weor[eth]an to be, to become; akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt, Icel. ur[eth]r. [root]143. See Worth to become.] 1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. [Obs. or Scot.]
2. A spell or charm. [Obs. or Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
weird
\Weird\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
2. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
Myself too had weird seizures. --Tennyson.
Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation. --Longfellow.
Weird sisters, the Fates. [Scot.] --G. Douglas.
Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth.
The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land. --Shak.
weird
\Weird\, v. t. To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
weird
adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: eldritch, uncanny, unearthly] 2: strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker n : Fate personified; one of the three Weird Sisters [syn: Wyrd, Weird]