What does "weird" mean? (All the info is swiped from Webster's dictionary)

Weird is both an adjective and a noun. Most of us are familiar with the noun definition: "Of strange or extraordinary character : odd, fantastic".

However, it's adjective definition closely relates to "fate" or "destiny", and is often related to a Soothsayer, "a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means".

The next few paragraphs are direct excerpts from Webster's Dictionary

- You may know weird as a generalized term describing something unusual, but this word also has older meanings that are more specific. Weird derives from the Old English noun wyrd, essentially meaning "fate."

(This next paragraph is also written, but I don't know how revelant it is.)

- By the 8th century, the plural wyrde had begun to appear in texts as a gloss for Parcae, the Latin name for the Fates—three goddesses who spun, measured, and cut the thread of life. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Scots authors employed werd or weird in the phrase "weird sisters" to refer to the Fates. William Shakespeare adopted this usage in Macbeth, in which the "weird sisters" are depicted as three witches. Subsequent adjectival use of weird grew out of a reinterpretation of the weird used by Shakespeare.

I think this alternate definition is so relevant! I see a lot of people complain about the name of the weird route and how it's less auraful than other names like the "snowgrave route", but I feel like with this definition it's TOTALLY so auraful!