Rune

See also: rune and runë

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse Rúni.

Proper noun

Rune

1. a male given name from Old Norse

German

Etymology

From Middle High German rūne, from Old High German rūna, from Proto-West Germanic *rūnu, from Proto-Germanic *rūnō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁuːnə/

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Noun

Rune f (genitive Rune, plural Runen)

1. rune (letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples)

Declension

Declension of Rune [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Rune	die	Runen
genitive	einer	der	Rune	der	Runen
dative	einer	der	Rune	den	Runen
accusative	eine	die	Rune	die	Runen

Derived terms

• Runeninschrift
• Sternrune

Related terms

• Alraune

Further reading

• “Rune” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Rune” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Rune” in Duden online
• Rune on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse Rúni, from rúni (“good friend”). Also a short form of compound names with the element run (such as Runolv).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²rʉːnə/

Proper noun

Rune m (definite Runen)

1. a male given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Runa

Related terms

• run

References

• Eivind Vågslid (1988) “Rune”, in Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN
• Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 18 640 males with the given name Rune living in Norway on January 1st 2023, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 1st February, 2023.

Swedish

Etymology

Masculine form of Runa, also from Old Norse Rúni. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1865.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Rune c (genitive Runes)

1. a male given name

Related terms

• (female given name) Runa
• (surnames) Runesson

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 34 272 males with the given name Rune living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Anagrams

• uren