Thurisaz
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The rune ᚦ is called Thurs (Old Norse Þurs, a type of entity, from a reconstructed Common Germanic *Þurisaz) in the Icelandic and Norwegian rune poems. In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem it is called thorn, whence the name of the letter þ derived. It is transliterated as þ, and has the sound value of a voiceless dental fricative /θ/ (the English sound of th as in thing).
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Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse |
---|---|---|---|
*Þurisaz | Þorn | Þurs | |
"giant" | "thorn" | "giant" | |
Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark |
Unicode | ᚦ U+16A6 | ||
Transliteration | þ | ||
Transcription | þ | þ, ð | |
IPA | [θ] | [θ], [ð] | |
Position in rune-row | 3 |
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The rune is absent from the earliest Vimose inscriptions, but it is found in the Thorsberg chape inscription, dated to ca. AD 200.
The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the classical Latin alphabet's D,[1] or from the Rhaetic's alphabet's Θ.[2]