futhark
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the first six letters of the runic alphabet, ᚠ (“f”), ᚢ (“u”), ᚦ (“þ”), ᚨ (“a”), ᚱ (“r”), ᚲ (“k”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfuː.θɑːk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈfu.θɑɹk/
- Hyphenation: fu‧thark
Noun
[edit]futhark (plural futharks)
- The Germanic runic alphabet; especially specifically the Elder or Younger futhark alphabet (of Scandinavia and the European mainland), as contrasted with the Anglo-Saxon futhorc.
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[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the first six letters of the runic alphabet, ᚠ (“f”), ᚢ (“u”), ᚦ (“þ”), ᚨ (“a”), ᚱ (“r”), ᚲ (“k”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]futhark m or n (definite singular futharken or futharket, indefinite plural futharkar or futhark, definite plural futharkane or futharka)
- a futhark
Swedish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]futhark c
- futhark
- 1936, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Statarna I[1], Albert Bonniers förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, archived from the original on 2025-03-11, page 268:
- Som barn lekte vi vid en runsten. Aldrig betraktade vi runstenen annat än som en sten. Blinda stirrade vi upp på dess ålderdomliga, oläsliga futhark av mossiga runor.
- As children we played by a runestone. We never thought of the runestone as anything other than a stone. Blindly we stared up at its ancient, illegible futhark of mossy runes.
- 2024 July 30, “Gudar”, in Nordiska Asa-samfundet[2], archived from the original on 2024-10-03:
- Då [Oden] hade hängt i [världs]trädet [Yggdrasil] i nio dagar och nätter, utan mat och vatten [...], så uppenbarade sig [...] futharken för honom.
- When Odin had hung in the world tree Yggdrasil for nine days and nights, without food and water, the futhark was revealed to him.
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | futhark | futharks |
definite | futharken | futharkens | |
plural | indefinite | futharker | futharkers |
definite | futharkerna | futharkernas |
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