rune

See also Rune

English

Wikipedia

Anglo-Saxon runes

Etymology

From Old Norse rún. Compare roun.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ruːn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

rune (plural runes)

1. A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
2. A Finnish poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
3. Any verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; an incantation.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 15:

     the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.

4. (obsolete) A roun.

Derived terms

• runecraft
• runelore
• runester
• runology, runologist

Translations

a letter or character

• Danish: rune (da) c
• Dutch: rune (nl) m and f
• Faroese: rún (fo) f
• Finnish: riimu (fi), riimukirjain (fi)
• French: rune (fr) f
• German: Rune (de)
• Greek: ρούνος (el) (roúnos) m 
• Icelandic: rún (is) f

• Italian: runa (it) f
• Japanese: ルーン文字 (ja) (rūn-moji)
• Norwegian: rune (no) f
• Portuguese: runa (pt) f
• Russian: руна (ru) (rúna) f 
• Spanish: runa (es) f
• Swedish: runa (sv) c
• Volapük: raunatonat (vo)

a Finnish poem

• Finnish: runo (fi)

• Japanese: (poem) 北欧古詩 (ja) (hokuō-koshi); (myth) 北欧神話 (ja) (hokuō-shinwa)

roun

• Japanese: 占星術 (ja) (senseijutsu)

Anagrams

• Nuer, urne

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA: /ˈrynə/
• Hyphenation: ru‧ne

Noun

rune f (plural runen, diminutive runetje)

1. rune

Anagrams

• uren

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Italian

Noun

rune f

1. Plural form of runa

Anagrams

• urne

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rʉːnə/, X-SAMPA: /r}:n@/
• Rhymes: -ʉːnə

Noun

rune

1. rune

Inflection

    Inflection of rune

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål f	rune	runa	runer	runene
Bokmål m	rune	runen	runer	runene

Anagrams

• uren

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse rún.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rʉːnə/, X-SAMPA: /r}:n@/
• Rhymes: -ʉːnə

Noun

rune

1. rune

Inflection

    Inflection of rune

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Nynorsk f	rune [runa]	runa	runer [runor]	runene [runone]

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈruːne/

Noun

rūne

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