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Feoh
The Fe rune ( Old Norse '' fé''; Old English '' feoh'') represents the ''f'' and ''v''-sound in the Younger Futhark and Futhorc alphabets. Its name means '(mobile) wealth', cognate to English ''fee'' with the original meaning of ' sheep' or ' cattle' ( Dutch , German , Latin , Sanskrit ). The rune derives from the unattested but reconstructed Proto-Germanic ' in the Elder Futhark alphabet, with the original meaning of "money, cattle, wealth". Page, Raymond I. (2005) ''Runes''. The British Museum Press. p. 15. The corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet is 𐍆 ''f'', called . Such correspondence between all rune poems and the Gothic letter name, as well, is uncommon, and gives the reconstructed name of the Old Futhark a high degree of certainty. The shape of the rune is likely based on Etruscan ''v'' 𐌅 , like Greek Digamma and Latin F ultimately from Phoenician waw . Rune poems The name is recorded in all three rune poems:Original poems and translation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runic Letter Fehu
Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter. In addition to representing a sound value (a phoneme), runes can be used to represent the concepts after which they are named (ideographs). Scholars refer to instances of the latter as ('concept runes'). The Scandinavian variants are also known as ''futhark'' or ''fuþark'' (derived from their first six letters of the script: '' F'', '' U'', '' Þ'', '' A'', '' R'', and '' K''); the Anglo-Saxon variant is ''futhorc'' or ' (due to sound-changes undergone in Old English by the names of those six letters). Runology is the academic study of the runic alphabets, runic inscriptions, runestones, and their history. Runology forms a specialised branch of Germanic philology. The earliest secure runic inscriptions date from aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
