Ihwa

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Ihwa ( ᛇ ) is the thirteenth rune of the older Futhark and is missing from the Old Norse runic alphabet . The reconstructed ancient Germanic name means " yew ". The rune appears in the rune poems as Old English eoh or Gothic eyz .

Sound value

The sound value of the rune is not entirely clear and is probably between e and i. Possibly it was originally a diphthong / ei /.

The transcription is carried out using the Latin letters ï or ë .

Character encoding

Unicode codepoint U + 16C7
Unicode name RUNIC LETTER IWAZ EOH
HTML & # 5831;
character ᛇ

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus Düwel : Runenkunde (= Metzler Collection. Vol. 72). 3rd, completely revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-476-13072-X .
  2. ^ Thesaurus of Indo-European Text and Language Materials
  3. ↑ as in "Hey!"