Thursday 19th May 2016
Eldritch \ [el-drich]
1. eerie; weird; spooky.
Also, eldrich, elritch
Quote
When discussing her Project, April liked to dwell on the eldritch twentieth-century correlation between women's hemlines and the stock market.
Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather 1994
Origin
Eldritch is of uncertain origin, but the earlier elrich is equivalent to the Old
English el- meaning "foreign, strange, uncanny" and rīce meaning "kingdom"; hence “of a strange country, pertaining to the Otherworld.”
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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