rune

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See also: Rune, runë, and runę

English

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Anglo-Saxon runes

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *rūnō (“letter, literature, secret”), which is borrowed either from Proto-Celtic *rūnā or from the same source as it; compare Dutch rune, German Rune, Danish rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ro͞on, IPA(key): /ɹuːn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

rune (plural runes)

  1. A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
    • 1970, Richard Hamer, editor, A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse, Croydon: Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 76:
      Runes were the letters of an ancient Germanic alphabet, ultimately derived from the Mediterranean alphabets, which was used for carving on wood or stone and which to some extent survived the introduction of writing.
    • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 32:
      "Finding you somewhere to live isn't going to be easy," he said. "We must cast the runes," said Catweazle. "They will tell us."
  2. A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
  3. A letter or mark used as a mystical or magic symbol.
  4. A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Louis Wain to this entry?)
    Where the daylight peeps thro' like the glint of the Moon, / And the branches are rustling a murmurous rune, / The Owls sit in council like prophets of Fate, / Discussing grave questions of Kingdom and State.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 15:
      the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.
  5. (obsolete) Alternative form of roun (“secret or mystery”).
  6. (programming, in the Go programming language) A Unicode code point.
    • 2016, Shiju Varghese, Go Recipes, Apress, →ISBN, page 12:
      Go language defines the type rune as an alias for the type int32 to represent a Unicode code point. A string in Go is a sequence of runes.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Mandarin: 盧恩／卢恩 (lú'ēn)

Translations

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Anagrams

Danish

Noun

rune c (singular definite runen, plural indefinite runer)

  1. rune

Declension

Declension of rune
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rune runen runer runerne
genitive runes runens runers runernes

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rune, from Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

Noun

rune f (plural runen, diminutive runetje n)

  1. rune

Derived terms

Anagrams

French

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Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

Noun

rune f (plural runes)

  1. rune

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈru.ne/
  • Rhymes: -une
  • Hyphenation: rù‧ne

Noun

rune f

  1. plural of runa

Anagrams

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *rūna, from Proto-Germanic *rūnō.

Noun

rune f

  1. (rare) secretive whispering

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

Noun

rune f or m (definite singular runa or runen, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)

  1. rune

References

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Elder Futhark
Comparison of some post-Reformation runic alphabets from Norway and Sweden

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Danish rune; likely a reanalysis of Old Norse plural rúnir, whence also runer f pl. Doublet of run.

Pronunciation

Noun

rune f (definite singular runa, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)

  1. rune (a letter of runic alphabet)
    Synonym: run
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Related to run (“witchcraft; rune”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rune f (definite singular runa, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)

  1. an old formula, particularly a verse or a proverb

References

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

rūne

  1. accusative singular of rūn
  2. genitive singular of rūn
  3. dative singular of rūn
  4. nominative plural of rūn
  5. accusative plural of rūn

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

rune (Cyrillic spelling руне)

  1. inflection of runa:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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