Ehwaz
Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English |
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*Ehwaz | E(o)h | |
"horse" | ||
Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc |
Unicode | ᛖ U+16D6 | |
Transliteration | e | |
Transcription | e | |
IPA | [e(ː)] | |
Position in rune-row | 19 |
*Ehwaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the Elder Futhark e rune ᛖ, meaning "horse" (cognate to Latin equus, Gaulish epos, Tocharian B yakwe, Sanskrit aśva, Avestan aspa and Old Irish ech). In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as ᛖ eh (properly eoh, but spelled without the diphthong to avoid confusion with ᛇ ēoh "yew").
The Proto-Germanic vowel system was asymmetric and unstable. The difference between the long vowels expressed by ᛖ e and ᛇ ï (sometimes transcribed as *ē1 and *ē2) was lost. The Younger Futhark continues neither, lacking a letter expressing e altogether. The Anglo-Saxon futhorc faithfully preserved all Elder futhorc staves, but assigned new sound values to the redundant ones, futhorc ēoh expressing a diphthong.
In the case of the Gothic alphabet, where the names of the runes were re-applied to letters derived from the Greek alphabet, the letter 𐌴 e was named aíƕus "horse" as well (note that in Gothic orthography, ⟨aí⟩ represents monophthongic /e/).
Anglo-Saxon rune poem
The Anglo-Saxon rune poem has:
- ᛖ Eh bẏþ for eorlum æþelinga ƿẏn,
- hors hofum ƿlanc, ðær him hæleþ ẏmb[e]
- ƿelege on ƿicgum ƿrixlaþ spræce
- and biþ unstẏllum æfre frofur.
- "The horse is a joy to princes in the presence of warriors.
- A steed in the pride of its hoofs,
- when rich men on horseback bandy words about it;
- and it is ever a source of comfort to the restless."
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Elder Futhark | ᚠ | ᚢ | ᚦ | ᚨ | ᚱ | ᚲ | ᚷ | ᚹ | ᚺ | ᚾ | ᛁ | ᛃ | ᛇ | ᛈ | ᛉ | ᛊ | ᛏ | ᛒ | ᛖ | ᛗ | ᛚ | ᛜ | ᛟ (o) | ᛞ | |||||||||||||
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Old English Futhorc | ᚠ | ᚢ | ᚦ | ᚩ (o) | ᚱ | ᚳ (c) | ᚷ (ȝ) | ᚹ | ᚻ | ᚾ | ᛁ | ᛄ | ᛇ | ᛈ | ᛢ | ᛉ (x) | ᛋ | ᛏ | ᛒ | ᛖ | ᛗ | ᛚ | ᛝ | ᛟ | ᛞ | ᚪ | ᚫ | ᚣ | ᛡ | ᛠ | ᛣ | ᛤ | ᛥ | ᚸ | |||
Younger Futhark | ᚠ | ᚢ | ᚦ | ᚬ (ą) | ᚱ | ᚴ | ᚼ | ᚾ | ᛁ | ᛦ (ʀ) | ᛋ | ᛏ | ᛒ | ᛘ | ᛚ | ᛅ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medieval | ᚠ | ᚡ | ᚢ | ᚦ | ᚧ | ᚮ | ᚱ | ᚴ | ᚵ | ᚼ | ᚿ ᛀ | ᛁ | ᛂ | ᛕ ᛔ | ᛩ | ᛪ (x) | ᛌ | ᛐ | ᛒ | ᛘ | ᛚ ᛛ | ᚶ | ᚯ | ᛑ | ᛆ | ᛅ | ᚤ ᛦ | ||||||||||
Transliteration | f | v | u | þ | ð | a | r | k | ġ | w | h | n | i | j | ï | p | q | z | s | t | b | e | m | l | ŋ | œ | d | a | æ | y | io | ea | k | k̄ | st | g |
- See also
- Runic inscriptions interactive map
- Dalecarlian runes
- Runic inscriptions
- Rune Poems
- Runestones
- Runic magic
- Modern runic writing
- Pseudo-runes
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