wicca

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Wicca neo-pagan religion
 * 2) Wiccan follower of this religion

Noun

 * 1) Wicca

Etymology
From.

Further etymology uncertain; apparently from, 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 "prophetic, mantic",  "to practice divination" (🇨🇬 and suggests 🇨🇬, via  becoming . The basic form would then be the feminine, , from , from  with palatalization due to the preceding i and the following *æ, from *ōn. The palatal   in  would then be analogous to the feminine.

An alternative possibility is to derive the palatal directly from the verb, from  (OED, s.v. witch). Lühr conversely favours derivation of this verb from the noun.

Noun

 * 1) wizard, sorcerer, magician, druid, necromancer
 * 2) * c. 890, Ælfred, Domboc, Prologue
 * "ang"

- Ða fæmnan þe gewuniað onfon gealdorcræftigan ⁊ scinlæcan ⁊ wiccan, ne læt þu ða libban.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) Wicca