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weird (adj.)

c. 1400,

• "having power to control fate", from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes,"

• from Proto-Germanic wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"),

• from PIE wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"),

• from root wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).

• For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

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A Saying is a Flower, a Proverb is a Berry (www.reddit.com)

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The proverb in the title is a berry. In my digestion of it I have learned two deep simplicities.

A proverb is not something to explain to the contemplative mind. Digestion is individual.
To recognize this proverb as a proverb is to glimpse the subsurface of proverbial depth.

Meanings go deep.
The depths can be searched.
Perhaps there is a bottom.
It would be something foundational.

Here I have brought you a single berry on a big white plate and I have cut it into pieces.

Flowers are beautiful.

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[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"A Saying is a Flower, a Proverb is a Berry"

Originally posted by u/[deleted] on 2021-07-04 23:37:32 (odkm8g).