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wicca
Finnish
Noun
wicca
- Wicca (neo-pagan religion)
- Wiccan (follower of this religion)
Declension
Synonyms
- (religion): wicca-uskonto, wiccalaisuus
- (follower): wiccalainen
Derived terms
- wiccalainen
- wiccalaisuus
Italian
Noun
wicca f (invariable)
- Wicca
Related terms
- wiccano
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“necromancer, sorcerer”).
Further etymology uncertain; apparently from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“separate, divide”), conjectured to be because of early Germanic divinatory practices to do with casting lots (cleromancy).
The exact etymology is problematic. R. Lühr (Expressivität und Lautgesetz im Germanischen, Heidelberg (1988), p. 354) connects wigol "prophetic, mantic", w?glian "to practice divination" (Middle Low German wichelen (“bewitch”) and suggests Proto-Germanic *wig?n, via Kluge's law becoming *wikk?n. The basic form would then be the feminine, wicce /?w?t??e/, from *wikkæ, from *wikk?n with palatalization due to the preceding i and the following *æ, from *?n. The palatal -cc- /t??/ in wicca would then be analogous to the feminine.
An alternative possibility is to derive the palatal /t??/ directly from the verb wiccian, from *wikkija (OED, s.v. witch). Lühr conversely favours derivation of this verb from the noun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wit.t???/
Noun
wi??a m (nominative plural wi??an)
- wizard, sorcerer, magician, druid, necromancer
- c. 890, Ælfred, Domboc, Prologue
- c. 890, Ælfred, Domboc, Prologue
Declension
Derived terms
- wi??e f
Descendants
- Middle English: wicche; wikke, wikked
- English: witch; Wicca (borrowing), wicked
- Scots: wich; wicked, wicket
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paganism
English
Etymology
From Latin p?g?nismus (“heathenism”), from p?g?nus (“peasant, rural, rustic”). The term was used pejoratively by early Muslims and Christians to belittle what remained of the native religions. Synchronically, pagan +? -ism.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pe???n?zm?/
- Hyphenation: pa?gan?ism
Noun
paganism (countable and uncountable, plural paganisms)
- Any indigenous polytheistic religion.
- Most people in that region practise their own form of paganism.
- Any of a class of religions often associated with nature rituals.
- Various neopagan movements have arisen, each advancing its own form of paganism. Some are monotheist.
Coordinate terms
- (religions) religion; Asatru,? Bahá'í Faith,? Buddhism,? Cao Dai,? Cheondoism,? Christianity,? deism,? Druidry,? Eckankar,? Flying Spaghetti Monsterism,? Heathenry,? Hinduism,? Islam,? Jainism,? Jediism,? Judaism,? Kimbanguism,? Odinism,? paganism,? Pastafarianism,? Raëlism,? Rastafarianism,? Shinto,? Sikhism,? Tamilism,? Taoism,? Thelema,? Unitarian Universalism,? Wicca,? Yazidism,? Yoruba,? Zoroastrianism (Category: en:Religion) [edit]
Related terms
- pagan
- neo-paganism
Translations
See also
- Christianity
- heathen
- heathendom
- heathenism
- gentile
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