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The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the Rhaetic's alphabet's N. [ 1 ] The valkyrie Sigrdrífa in Sigrdrífumál talks (to Sigurd ) about the rune as a beer-rune and that "You should learn beer-runes if you don’t want another man’s wife to abuse your trust if you have a tryst.
The common nase (Chondrostoma nasus) is a European potamodromous cyprinid fish. It is often simply called the nase , but that can refer to any species of its genus Chondrostoma . Another name is sneep .
Two early forms of the /m/ rune of the Younger Futhark. Mannaz is the conventional name of the /m/ rune ᛗ of the Elder Futhark. It is derived from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic (or Common Germanic) word for 'man', *mannaz. The Younger Futhark equivalent ᛘ is maðr ('man'). It took up the shape of the algiz rune ᛉ, replacing Elder ...
The evolution of the rune in the elder futhark during the centuries. The k-rune ᚲ (Younger Futhark ᚴ, Anglo-Saxon futhorc ᚳ) is called Kaun in both the Norwegian and Icelandic rune poems, meaning "ulcer". The reconstructed Proto-Germanic name is *Kauną. It is also known as Kenaz ("torch"), based on its Anglo-Saxon name.
This rune may have been invented because stinging a consonant rune usually marks it as voiced, and the stung b rune violated this norm by being unvoiced. [ 7 ] When the medieval runic alphabet was fully developed in the early 13th century, it mixed short-twig and long-branch runes in a novel manner.
The lack of agreement between the various glyphs and their names in Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, and Old Norse makes it difficult to reconstruct the Elder Futhark rune's Proto-Germanic name. Assuming that the Scandinavian name þurs is the most plausible reflex of the Elder Futhark name, a Common Germanic form * þurisaz can be reconstructed (cf. Old ...
Ansuz is the conventional name given to the a-rune of the Elder Futhark, ᚨ. The name is based on Proto-Germanic *ansuz, denoting a deity belonging to the principal pantheon in Germanic paganism. The shape of the rune is likely from Neo-Etruscan a (), like Latin A ultimately from Phoenician aleph.
Coregonus nasus, broad whitefish; Lamna nasus, porbeagle, a shark; Menticirrhus nasus, highfin king croaker, (see kingcroaker) Nematalosa nasus, Bloch's gizzard shad (see Clupeidae) Ostracion nasus, shortnose boxfish (see boxfish) Parodon nasus (syn: Parodon tortuosus), freshwater fish (see Characidae) Typhlonus nasus, a cusk-eel (see Ophidiidae)