Rune

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See also: rune and runë

Danish

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Etymology

From Old Norse Rúni.

Proper noun

Rune

  1. a male given name from Old Norse

German

Etymology

From Middle High German rūne, from Old High German rūna, from Proto-West Germanic *rūnu, from Proto-Germanic *rūnō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁuːnə/
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Noun

Rune f (genitive Rune, plural Runen)

  1. rune (letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples)

Declension

Declension of Rune
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Rune die Runen
genitive einer der Rune der Runen
dative einer der Rune den Runen
accusative eine die Rune die Runen

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Rune” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Rune” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Rune” in Duden online
  • Rune on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

From Old Norse Rúni, from rúni (“good friend”). Also a short form of compound names with the element run (such as Runolv).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Rune m (definite Runen)

  1. a male given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Runa

References

  • Eivind Vågslid (1988) “Rune”, in Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN
  • Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
  • Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 18 640 males with the given name Rune living in Norway on January 1st 2023, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 1st February, 2023.

Swedish

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Etymology

Masculine form of Runa, also from Old Norse Rúni. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1865.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Rune c (genitive Runes)

  1. a male given name

References

  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 34 272 males with the given name Rune living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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