Orlay
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Fate, destiny. Germanic, no-plural
"There laws they laid, there life chose, To men's sons, and spoke orlay […]"
Example
More examples"There laws they laid, there life chose, To men's sons, and spoke orlay […]"
Etymology
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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