Wyrd is a feminine noun, and its Norse cognate urðr, besides meaning " fate ", is the name of one of the Norns ; urðr is literally " that which has come to pass ", verðandi is " what is in the process of happening " ( the present participle of the verb cognate to weorþan ) and skuld " debt, guilt " ( from a Germanic root * skul-" to owe ", also found in English shall ).

She has starred in six Discworld novels ( Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade and Carpe Jugulum ), has appeared briefly in Wee Free Men, acted as a significant supporting character in A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, and I Shall Wear Midnight, and was referenced in three other Discworld books ( by name in Mort, and anonymously in Thief of Time as well as Going Postal ).

Death has also been played by numerous actors in amateur stage productions of Wyrd Sisters, Mort, Soul Music, and Hogfather, as well as various other plays based upon the novels.

Hibbert has continued to write and script-edit for many other celebrated children's series such as The Legends of Treasure Island, Oscar's Orchestra, Wyrd Sisters, Dr Otter, Preston Pig, The Secret Show, Tom and Vicky, Teddybears, Snailsbury Tales, Dennis and Gnasher, Vampires, Pirates and Aliens, Shaun the Sheep, Chuggington, Fifi and the Flowertots, The Roly Mo Show, Rubbadubbers, Transylvania Pet Shop, Bob the Builder, Little Monsters, Little Red Tractor, Oakie Doke, the 2005 version of Muffin the Mule, Jakers!

Hibbert has also been involved in animated feature films and TV series, providing voices for The BFG, The King's Beard, Soul Music, Wyrd Sisters, The Reluctant Dragon and The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship as well as writing scripts for Second Star to the Right, Father Christmas and the Missing Reindeer and two Bob the Builder TV specials, A Christmas to Remember and The Knights of Can-a-Lot.

The Wyrd Sisters ' music has been featured on the following compilations:

Other female deities such as the valkyries, the norns, and the dísir are associated with a Germanic concept of fate ( Old Norse Ørlög, Old English Wyrd ), and celebrations were held in their honor, such as the Dísablót and Disting.

Mentions of wyrd in Old English literature include The Wanderer, " Wyrd bið ful aræd " (" Fate remains wholly inexorable ") and Beowulf, " Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel!

The Wyrd is the connexion of forces from the past, the present and the future, mythologically represented by the Norns ( or Wyrdae, " Wyrds ", the " Wyrd Sisters "), Urd ( who is the Old Norse for " Wyrd " itself ), Verdandi and Skuld.

Odin hung upside down from the world-tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days to attain wisdom and thereby retrieved the runes from the Well of Wyrd, which in Norse cosmology is regarded as the source and end of all sacred mystery and knowledge.

( It having been established as early as Wyrd Sisters that people's perception of time affects its flow on the Disc, the Monks must ensure this does not become a problem, by, as an example, taking some time from the middle of the ocean (' how much time does a codfish need?

According to Snorri Sturluson's interpretation of the Völuspá, the three most important norns, Urðr ( Wyrd ), Verðandi and Skuld come out from a hall standing at the Well of Urðr ( well of fate ) and they draw water from the well and take sand that lies around it, which they pour over Yggdrasill so that its branches will not rot.

In return, he secured from the Well of Wyrd eighteen ( twice nine ) charms or runes.

Other television credits include Absolutely Fabulous, Victoria Wood-We'd Quite Like To Apologise, Bad Girl, Boon, Heartland, Hunting Venus, La Nonna, Leaving Home, Never Mind the Horrocks, Nightlife, Wyrd Sisters, Foxbusters, Red Dwarf, Some Kind of Life, Suffer the Little Children, The Storyteller, The Garden, Fifi & the Flowertots, Little Princess ( the voice of the princess ) and Welcome to the Times.

Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny.

* Bertha S. Philpotts, ' Wyrd and Providence in Anglo-Saxon Thought ', Essays and Studies 13 ( 1928 ), 7-27.

* Ian McNish, ' Wyrd, Causality and Providence.

In Wyrd Sisters the Lancre witches draw on the influence of Black Aliss, who moved a castle and its inhabitants one hundred years into the future, when Granny Weatherwax transports her own native kingdom seventeen years ahead to allow the proper heir to the usurped throne to reach adulthood abroad without having to wait.

* The Discworld novel, Wyrd Sisters, satirizes the idea in several places, with several characters appearing to be under the impression that ' Droit de Seigneur ' is a type of dog, leading to a recurring double entendre about it having to be ' exercised ' often.

Wyrd Sisters is Terry Pratchett's sixth Discworld novel, published in 1988, and re-introduces Granny Weatherwax of Equal Rites.

Wyrd Sisters features three witches: Granny Weatherwax ; Nanny Ogg, matriarch of a large tribe of Oggs and owner of the most evil cat in the world ; and Magrat Garlick, the junior witch, who firmly believes in occult jewelry, covens, and bubbling cauldrons, much to the annoyance of the other two.

In 1997 Cosgrove Hall films produced two series for Channel 4 based on Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music, two novels from Pratchett's Discworld series.

In the Wyrd Sisters animated adaptation, Magrat is voiced by Jane Horrocks.

In Wyrd Sisters she unleashed considerably explosive magic on a cart after losing her temper for nearly being run over by it, and sent the entire nation of Lancre forward in time fifteen years so that the exiled heir to the throne would be of age to liberate the country from its henpecked usurper sooner rather than later, albeit with considerable effort and after much manipulation by Nanny Ogg.

In Wyrd Sisters, her second appearance, she makes contact with the very mind of Lancre itself.

In the Wyrd Sisters animated adaptation, Granny Weatherwax was voiced by Annette Crosbie and in the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation she was played by Sheila Hancock.

First appears in Wyrd Sisters as a guard at Lancre Castle.

Eldest son of Nanny Ogg, first mentioned in Wyrd Sisters.

In the Wyrd Sisters animated adaptation, Nanny Ogg was voiced by June Whitfield.

The shift in the line-up led to their second album, Wyrd, recorded at Gernhart studios in Siegburg with Martin Buchwalter, and mixed & mastered at House of music studios with Achim Kolher and released on April 19, 2004.

* 1993-Knight's Wyrd by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

In the 1997 animated adaptations of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters, Death was voiced by Christopher Lee.

The word friend itself has cognates in the other Germanic languages ; but the Scandinavian ones ( like Swedish frände, Danish frænde ) predominatly mean " relative " ( but may also mean soulmate ).

For example, German and Scandinavian " Hund " and Dutch " Hond " are the cognates of English " hound ", but whereas hund and hond refer to dogs in general, in English the sense has been narrowed to dogs used for hunting.

The English term has cognates in the other Germanic languages: Old Saxon heƀan " sky, heaven ", Middle Low German heven " sky ", Old Icelandic himinn " sky, heaven ", Gothic himins ; and those with a variant final-l: Old Frisian himel, himul " sky, heaven ", Old Saxon / Old High German himil, Dutch hemel, and modern German Himmel.

The word has cognates in many other languages.

This has led some scholars to question whether " Nazareth " and its cognates in the New Testament actually refer to the settlement we know traditionally as Nazareth in Lower Galilee.

In these languages, words from Proto Indo-European have p at the beginning if they come from initial * p. English cognates often start with F, since English is a Germanic language, and has undergone the Grimm's law.

The word has many cognates outside of Germanic and Celtic, notably Latin rex and Sanskrit raja " king ".

It has cognates in several other Germanic languages including Gothic wair, Old High German wer, and Old Norse verr, as well as in other Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit ' vira ', Latin vir, Irish fear, Lithuanian vyras, and Welsh gŵr, which have the same meaning.

The word has several cognates in modern Germanic languages, such as German Scheiße, Dutch schijt, Swedish skit, Icelandic skítur, Norwegian skitt etc.

While the word ass has cognates in most other Indo-European languages, donkey is an etymologically obscure word for which no credible cognate has been identified.

It has cognates in other Germanic languages — for example tonge in West Frisian, tong in Dutch / Afrikaans, tunge in Danish / Norwegian and tunga in Icelandic / Faroese / Swedish.

In real-world terms, Tolkien's inspiration for the word Arda may be certain cognates of the English word " Earth " in the other Germanic languages, specifically the Afrikaans " Aarde " which has equivalent pronunciation and meaning, and unsurprising in use given Tolkien's South African origins.

The bury element is a form of borough, which has cognates in words and place names throughout the Germanic languages.

While most European languages have cognate names for the fruit, stemming from Latin granatum, an exception is the Portuguese term romã which is derived from Arabic ruman, and has cognates in other Semitic languages ( eg.

On the other hand, it shows that glottochronology can really only be used as a serious scientific tool on language families the historical phonology of which has been meticulously elaborated ( at least to the point of being able to clearly distinguish between cognates and loanwords ).

It has the Latin cognates ( accusative case ) magnum (" great ") and rēgem (" king ").

The name Bury is etymologically connected with borough, which has cognates in other Germanic languages such as the German " burg " meaning " fortress, castle "; Old Norse " borg " meaning " wall, castle "; and Gothic " baurgs " meaning " city ".

The word has cognates in most other Germanic languages, like Old Norse and Old Frisian lik, Gothic leik, Dutch lijk, German leiche and Danish lig, ultimately being derived from Proto-Germanic * likow.

; Luigi Pulci, XV ; Ludovico Ariosto, XV-XVI ) and has even older cognates with the Latin orcus and the Old English orcnēas found in Beowulf lines 112-113, which inspired J. R. R.

Over its history, anthropology has developed a number of related concepts and terms, such as descent, descent groups, lineages, affines, cognates and even fictive kinship and these are treated in their own subsections here, or in linked articles.

Its name is derived from a Middle English word " bugge " ( a frightening thing ), or perhaps the old Welsh word bwg ( evil spirit or goblin ), or old Scots " bogill " ( goblin ), and has cognates in German " bögge " or " böggel-mann " ( goblin ), and most probably also English " bugaboo " and " bogey-man ".

The modern English word raven has cognates in all other Germanic languages, including Old Norse hrafn and Old High German ( h ) raban, all which descend from Proto-Germanic * khrabanas.

The word has cognates, or near cognates, in other Germanic languages.