Uruz (other)
Uruz may refer to: * the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the Elder Futhark ''u'' rune (*Ūruz with the meaning ″aurochs, wild ox″), see Ur (rune), * a European project to breed back the extinct aurochs, see Uruz Project The Uruz Project had the goal of breeding back the extinct aurochs (''Bos p. primigenius''). Uruz is the old Germanic word for aurochs. The Uruz Project was initiated in 2013 by the True Nature Foundation and presented at TEDx DeExtinction, a d ...

Ur (rune)
The reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the Elder Futhark ''u'' rune is *Ūruz meaning " wild ox"Page, R.I. (2005). ''Runes'', page 15. The British Museum Press or *Ūrą "water". It may have been derived from the Raetic alphabet character ''u'' as it is similar in both shape and sound value. The name of the corresponding letter in the Gothic alphabet is ''urus''. Name The Icelandic word for "rain" and the Old English for "aurochs" go back to two different Proto-Germanic words, ''*ūruz'' and ''*ūrą'' (although possibly from the same root). The Norwegian meaning "dross, slag" is more obscure, but may be an Iron Age technical term derived from the word for water (cf. the Kalevala, where iron is compared to milk). Because of this, it is difficult to reconstruct a Proto-Germanic name for the Elder Futhark rune. It may have been *ūruz "aurochs" (see also Bull worship), or *ūrą "water". The aurochs is preferred by authors of modern runic divination systems, but both seem po ...
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