eldritch








adjective

  1. eerie; weird; spooky.

adjective

  1. poetic, Scot unearthly; weird
adj.

c.1500, apparently somehow from elf (cf. Scottish variant elphrish), an explanation OED finds “suitable;” Watkins connects its elements with Old English el- “else, otherwise” and rice “realm.”

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