English
New Weird
From new + weird (fiction), attributed to M.
Formed from new + weird fiction
Proto-Indo-European *nu ‘now’
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Proto-Germanic *niwjaz ‘new’
Proto-West Germanic *niwi ‘new’
Old English nēowe ‘new’
Middle English neowe
English new
Today it means
noun A literary genre that began in the 1990s, influenced by horror and speculative fiction, but often crossing genre boundaries.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / New Weird