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- Dictionaryrune/ro͞on/
noun
- 1. a letter of an ancient Germanic alphabet, related to the Roman alphabet.
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A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter. In addition to representing a sound value (a phoneme), runes can be used to represent the concepts after which they are named (ideographs). Schola... Wikipedia