rune
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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 and Swedish runa. Compare roun.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rune (plural runes)
- A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
- A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
- A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol.
- A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 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.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, page 15:
- (obsolete) A roun (secret or mystery).
- (programming) In the Go programming language, a Unicode code point.
Derived termsEdit
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AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
NounEdit
rune c (singular definite runen, plural indefinite runer)
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “rune” in Den Danske Ordbog
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from German Rune, from Old Norse rún.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rune f (plural runen, diminutive runetje n)
Derived termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rune f (plural runes)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Turkish: rün
Further readingEdit
- “rune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rune f
AnagramsEdit
Middle DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Dutch *rūna, from Proto-Germanic *rūnō.
NounEdit
rune f
InflectionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further readingEdit
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “rune (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rune f or m (definite singular runa or runen, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)
ReferencesEdit
- “rune” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
AnagramsEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål rune, from Danish rune. Likely an interpretation of Old Norse plural rúnir, whence also runer f pl.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rune f (definite singular runa, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “rune” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rūne
- accusative singular of rūn
- genitive singular of rūn
- dative singular of rūn
- nominative plural of rūn
- accusative plural of rūn
Serbo-CroatianEdit
NounEdit
rune (Cyrillic spelling руне)
- inflection of runa: