orlay

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orlay

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Learned borrowing from Old English orlæġ (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *oʀlag, *uʀlag, from Proto-Germanic *uzlagą (“destiny; fate”, literally “that which is laid out; out-lay; plan; design”). For more, see Old English or-, English lay.

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Germanic, countable, no plural, uncountable Fate, destiny. There laws they laid, there life chose, To men's sons, and spoke orlay […]
Similar: weird, wyrd, chance, destin, destiny, doom, fatality, fate, foredoom, foreordination, fortune, kismet

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@misc{orlay_2026,
  title = {orlay},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/orlay},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}