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Yr Rune (other)
Yr rune may be: * , a historical rune of the Younger Futhark, see Yr rune (Younger Futhark) * , a variant of the ''u'' rune to express the Old English phoneme in Anglo-Saxon runic manuscript tradition, see Ur (rune) *a rune in the Armanen Futharkh of Guido von List *a rune in the rune row of Karl Maria Wiligut {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yr Rune (Younger Futhark)
Algiz (also Elhaz) is the name conventionally given to the "''z''-rune" of the Elder Futhark runic alphabet. Its transliteration is ''z'', understood as a phoneme of the Proto-Germanic language, the terminal ''*z'' continuing Proto-Indo-European terminal ''*s''. It is one of two runes which express a phoneme that does not occur word-initially, and thus could not be named acrophonically, the other being the ''ŋ''-rune Ingwaz . As the terminal ''*-z'' phoneme marks the nominative singular suffix of masculine nouns, the rune occurs comparatively frequently in early epigraphy. Because this specific phoneme was lost at an early time, the Elder Futhark rune underwent changes in the medieval runic alphabets. In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc it retained its shape, but it was given the sound value of Latin ''x''. This is a secondary development, possibly due to runic manuscript tradition, and there is no known instance of the rune being used in an Old English inscription. In Proto-N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
