Wunjo
Wunjo
Wunjo ( ᚹ ) is the eighth rune of the older Futhark with the sound value w and is missing from the Old Norse runic alphabet . The reconstructed Germanic name means " bliss ". It appears in the rune poems as Old English wynn or Gothic winne .
Development and variants
The Latin letter Wen (Ƿ ƿ), which was used in Old English before the introduction of the ligature W for the sound value / w /, goes back to this rune. In Old Norse, the sounds / u /, / v / and / w / were represented with the slightly modified sign Vend (Ꝩ ꝩ).
Character encoding
| default | Wunjo ( ᚹ ) | Letter Wynn ( ƿ ) | Uppercase Wynn ( Ƿ ) | Capital letter Vend ( Ꝩ ) | Lowercase Vend ( ꝩ ) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | Codepoint | U + 16B9 | U + 01BF | U + 01F7 | U + A768 | U + A769 |
| Surname | RUNIC LETTER WUNJO WYNN W | LATIN LETTER WYNN | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER WYNN | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER VEND | LATIN SMALL LETTER VEND | |
| UTF-8 | E1 9A B9 | C6 BF | C7 B7 | EA 9D A8 | EA 9D A9 | |
| XML / XHTML | decimal |
ᚹ
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ƿ
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Ƿ
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Ꝩ
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ꝩ
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| hexadecimal |
ᚹ
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ƿ
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Ƿ
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Ꝩ
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ꝩ
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Düwel : Runenkunde (= Metzler Collection. Vol. 72). 3rd, completely revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2001, ISBN 3-476-13072-X .
- ^ Thesaurus of Indo-European Text and Language Materials