fate

From Middle English fate, borrowed from Latin fāta, meaning 'prediction' — the plural of fātum, itself from fātus, 'spoken,' from the verb for, 'to speak.'

The word entered English carrying its Latin sense of prediction, and in doing so pushed out the native Old English word for the same idea, wyrd, which survives today only as 'weird.'

Fate and weird were once rivals for the same job in English — fate is the Latin import that won out, while wyrd, its Old English predecessor, lingers on transformed into 'weird.'