rune
English
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Etymology
[edit]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, Raune, Danish rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rune (plural runes)
- 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."
- A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
- A letter or mark used as a mystical or magic symbol.
- 2016, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3242: The Dunkelest Brau:
- "Are the, um, eldritch runes supposed to glow like that?" "Dunno. I asked the distributor about 'em and he started shaking really fast like in a Tool video."
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Louis Wain to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of roun (“secret or mystery”).
- (programming, in the Go programming language) A Unicode code point.
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Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]rune c (singular definite runen, plural indefinite runer)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “rune” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Rune, from Old Norse rún.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rune f (plural runen, diminutive runetje n)
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rune f (plural runes)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Turkish: rün
Further reading
[edit]- “rune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rune f
Anagrams
[edit]Middle Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Dutch *rūna, from Proto-Germanic *rūnō.
Noun
[edit]rune f
Inflection
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Further reading
[edit]- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “rune (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Norwegian Bokmål
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[edit]Noun
[edit]rune f or m (definite singular runa or runen, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)
References
[edit]- “rune” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
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Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Danish rune; likely a reanalysis of Old Norse plural rúnir, whence also runer f pl. Doublet of run.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rune f (definite singular runa, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Related to run (“witchcraft; rune”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rune f (definite singular runa, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)
References
[edit]- “rune” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]rūne
- accusative singular of rūn
- genitive singular of rūn
- dative singular of rūn
- nominative plural of rūn
- accusative plural of rūn
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Noun
[edit]rune (Cyrillic spelling руне)
- inflection of runa:
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