rún
Icelandic
/ruːn/
noun
Definitions
- a rune
- a magical symbol
- (archaic) secret wisdom
- (obsolete) female confidant
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse rún (rune, secret) inherited from Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ inherited from Proto-Germanic *rūnō (secret, letter, literature, rune).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*rūnō
Gloss
secret, letter, literature, rune
Concept
Semantic Field
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- rune English
- runo Finnish
- Rune German
- rune French
- *rewH- Proto-Indo-European
- rune Norwegian Bokmål
- *rūnō Proto-Germanic
- runa Polish
- rune Norwegian Nynorsk
- run Old English
- rūn Old English
- rún Old Norse
- rúnar, rún Old Norse
- sigrún Old Norse
- rún Faroese
- 𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌰 Gothic
- *rūnu gmw-pro
- *rūna Old Dutch
- *rūnā Proto-Celtic
- runa Slovak
- run Old Swedish
- ᚱᚢᚾᛟ Proto-Norse