anachronism?

[Anne Lambert]

The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology finds "weird" as adjective first in
the 14th century (werde sister0 from which usage Shakespeare's must come.

P2052 at AOL.COM wrote:

> Is the spelling ot to correct?  If so, then weird is being used as a noun.
> According to  two sources,  The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories
> and the Arcade Dictionary of Word Origins, in Old English, the word was used
> a noun, meaning, "fate" or "destiny."  However, "This is getting to weird
> [fate, destiny]," doesn't make a whole lot of sense in this context.
>
> If  to is a misspelling of too, and weird is being used as an adjective,
> then,  both semantically and structurally, it is acceptable (at least in the
> sense of "odd" or "uncanny").  Both of the above sources also claim that the
> first adjectival use of weird was in "weird sisters," the three Fates
> portrayed as witches in  Macbeth.  In this context, according to the Arcade,
> the meaning is, "having the power to control fate."   The Merriam-Webster
> further describes an adjectival sense of "magical," "odd,"  or "fantastic"
> (first used in the 18th century), and the Arcade adds that in the early 19th
> century, the word assumed the definition, "uncanny."
>                                                 PAT