Mannaz rune
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- Mannaz redirects here. See Man (word) for the Germanic etymology. See Mannus for the mythological ancestor recorded by Tacitus.
| Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse | |
| *Mannaz | Man | Maðr | ||
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| man, human | ||||
| Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark | |
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| Unicode | ᛗ
U+16D7
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ᛘ
U+16D8
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ᛙ
U+16D9
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| Transliteration | m | |||
| Transcription | m | |||
| IPA | [m] | |||
| Position in rune-row | 20 | 14 | ||
Mannaz is the conventional name of the m-rune ᛗ of the Elder Futhark. It is derived from the reconstructed Common Germanic word for man, *mannaz.
Younger Futhark ᛘ is maðr (man). It took up the shape of the algiz rune ᛉ, replacing Elder Futhark ᛗ.
As its sound value and form in the Elder Futhark indicate, it is derived from the letter M (𐌌) in the Old Italic alphabets, ultimately from the Greek letter Mu (μ).
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[edit] Rune poems
The rune is recorded in all three Rune Poems, in the Norwegian and Icelandic poems as maðr, and in the Anglo-Saxon poem as man.
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[edit] Modern usage
For the man rune of the Armanen Futharkh as life rune in Germanic mysticism and Neo-Nazism, see Lebensrune.
[edit] References
- ^ Original poems and translation from the Rune Poem Page (Ragnar's Ragweed Forge).
[edit] See also
| Look up Appendix:Proto-Germanic/mann- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
| Look up maðr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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