rune

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.

• enPR: ro͞on, IPA^(key): /ɹuːn/

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• Rhymes: -uːn

rune (plural runes)

1. A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
2. A Finnish or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
3. A letter or mark used as mystical or magic symbol.
4. 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.

5. (obsolete) A roun (secret or mystery).
6. (programming) In the Go programming language, a Unicode code point.

• Nuer, Uren, neur-, urne

rune c (singular definite runen, plural indefinite runer)

1. rune

• “rune” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈrynə/
• Hyphenation: ru‧ne

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rune f (plural runen, diminutive runetje n)

1. rune

• uren
• urne

Borrowed from Old Norse rún.

• IPA^(key): /ʁyn/
• Rhymes: -yn

rune f (plural runes)

1. rune

• runologie

• → Turkish: rün

• “rune” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

rune (plural runes)

1. rune

• Rhymes: -une

rune f

1. plural of runa

• urne

From Old Dutch *rūna, from Proto-Germanic *rūnō.

rune f

1. (rare) secretive whispering

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “rune (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old Norse rún.

• IPA^(key): /rʉːnə/
• Rhymes: -ʉːnə

rune f or m (definite singular runa or runen, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)

1. rune

• “rune” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• uren

From Old Norse rún.

• IPA^(key): /rʉːnə/
• Rhymes: -ʉːnə

rune f (definite singular runa, indefinite plural runer, definite plural runene)

1. rune

• “rune” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈruːne/

rūne

1. accusative singular of rūn
2. genitive singular of rūn
3. dative singular of rūn
4. nominative plural of rūn
5. accusative plural of rūn