Ur (rune)
Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse | |
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*Ūruz/Ūrą | Ūr | Ȳr | Úr | |
"aurochs" / "water" | "aurochs" | ? | "dross"/"rain" | |
Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark | |
Unicode | ᚢ U+16A2 | ᚢ U+16A2 | ᚣ U+16A3 | ᚢ U+16A2 |
Transliteration | u | u | y | u |
Transcription | u | u | y | u, y, o, v / w |
IPA | [u(ː)] | [u(ː)] | [y(ː)] | [u(ː)], [y(ː)], [o(ː)], [w] |
Position in rune-row | 2 | 2 | 27 | 2 |
The
Name
The Icelandic word for "rain" and the Old English for "aurochs" go back to two different Proto-Germanic words, *ūruz and *ūrą (although possibly from the same root[original research?]). The Norwegian meaning "dross, slag" is more obscure, but may be an Iron Age technical term derived from the word for water (cf. the Kalevala, where iron is compared to milk).
Because of this, it is difficult to reconstruct a
Rune poems
It is recorded in all three rune poems, and it is called Ur in all, however with different meanings:
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References
- ISBN 0-7141-8065-3
- ^ Original poems and translation from the Rune Poem Page Archived 1999-05-01 at the Wayback Machine.