Rune

Noun

 * 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 poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
 * 3) Any verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; an incantation.
 * 4) * 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 15:
 * the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.
 * 1)  A roun.

Thesaurus
alchemy, arrowhead, bewitchery, character, charm, conjuration, cuneiform, demotic character, determinative, divination, enchantment, fetishism, glamour, gramarye, grammalogue, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, hoodoo, ideogram, ideograph, incantation, juju, jujuism, kana, katakana, logogram, logograph, magic, natural magic, necromancy, obeah, ogham, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph, poesy, poetry, radical, rhyme, shamanism, shorthand, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, sympathetic magic, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, vampirism, verse, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, wedge, white magic, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry, word letter

Etymology
From rún:. Compare roun:.

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:, riimukirjain
 * French:
 * Greek: ρούνος
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: ルーン文字
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: руна
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: raunatonat


 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: 北欧古詩;  北欧神話


 * Japanese: 占星術

Anagrams

 * Nuer, urne

Proper noun

 * 1)  derived from  Rúni:.

Noun
de rune f (m), plural runen


 * 1) A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons

Anagrams

 * uren

Noun
rune



Anagrams

 * urne

Etymology
From Rúni:. It died out after Middle Ages and was revived in the 19th century.

Proper noun

 * 1)  derived from  Rúni: and revived in the 19th century.