orlay
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of orlay
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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 […]”
“I am fully aware of how Oaths affect my Orlay and my Wyrd. I am Oathed to no one, save the Holy Ones and my Wife.”
“You could think of your own orlay as the source or seed of your “personal wyrd.” A newborn infant initially inherits its orlay from its parents and ancestors. This initial orlay is its heritage, compiled from the words and deeds of those ancestors.”
“These deeds done within the innangard of the tribe by its tribesmen are its law, its orlay.”
“Remember how I wrote at the beginning of this chapter that the Norns 'shape' orlay. Orlay itself gives a person 'shape' within the dimensions of Time and Wyrd.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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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