Fehu
Template:Short description Template:Infobox rune Template:Contains special characters Fehu is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name for the rune Page Template:Script/styles runic.css has no content.ᚠ (Template:Langx; Template:Langx), found as the first rune in all futharks (runic alphabets starting with F, U, Þ, Ą, R, K), i.e. the Germanic Elder Futhark, the Anglo-Frisian Futhark and the Norse Younger Futhark, with continued use in the later medieval runes, early modern runes and Dalecarlian runes.[citation needed]
It corresponds to the letter f in the Latin alphabet, but it can periodically shift into the sound value of v (compare "leaf" and "leaves").[citation needed]
Character
The shape of the rune is likely based on Etruscan v ⟨𐌅⟩ ⟨F⟩, like Greek Digamma ⟨Script error: No such module "Lang".⟩ and Latin ⟨F⟩ ultimately from Phoenician waw ⟨w⟩.[citation needed]
The change of the bistaves pointing upward could stem from visually diverging it from the rune ᚨ, as well as linking it visually to the horns of cattle (see § Name).[citation needed]
Name
The root name is an ancient word for "livestock". Compare Template:Langx ("livestock, animal"), Template:Langx ("livestock, cattle"), Template:Langx ("livestock"), Template:Langx ("livestock, loose assets"), Template:Langx ("livestock, money"), Script error: No such module "Lang". ("livestock"), Template:Langx, pecūs ("livestock"), Template:Langx (paṧu, "livestock, cattle"). By extension, it also means '(loose) wealth' and thereof, thus surviving as fee in English with the meaning of "payment compensating for rights or services".[citation needed]
The Proto-Germanic name has been reconstructed as Script error: No such module "Lang"., with the meaning of "livestock, cattle" and by extension "wealth".[1]
The corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet is ⟨𐍆⟩ ⟨f⟩, called Script error: No such module "Lang".. Such correspondence between all rune poems and the Gothic letter name, as well, is uncommon, and gives the reconstructed name of the Old Futhark a high degree of certainty.[citation needed]
Rune poems
The name is recorded in all three rune poems:[2][full citation needed]
Old Norwegian: Template:Verse translation
Old Icelandic: Template:Verse translation
Old English: Template:Verse translation
See also
References
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- ^ Page, Raymond I. (2005) Runes. The British Museum Press. p. 15. Template:ISBN
- ^ Original poems from the Rune Poem Page.
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