- Yr rune
The Yr rune runic|ᛦ is a
rune of theYounger Futhark . The name "yr" means "yew" inOld Norse .It developed out of the
Algiz rune as the Younger Futhark gradually began to replace the Elder Futhark from the around 600 CE. Its phonological value is also the continuation of the /z/ phoneme represented by Algiz, the word-final "*-z" inProto Germanic , notably thenominative desinence (PIE "*-s"). InProto-Norse pronounced closer to /r/, perhaps aretroflex approximant /ɻ/. Within Old Norse, the Proto-Norse phoneme collapses with the /r / phoneme.Its common transliteration is a small capital R.
Unicode has "Latin Small Capital Letter R" at codepoint U+0280 Unicode|ʀ. A corresponding capital letter is at U+01A6 Unicode|Ʀ, called "Latin Letter Yr". The rune itself is encoded at U+16E6 runic|ᛦ "Long Branch Yr". Variants are "Short Twig Yr" at U+16E7 runic|ᛧ and "Icelandic Yr" at U+16E8 runic|ᛨ.In the
International Phonetic Alphabet lowercase IPA|ʀ represents auvular trill .Note that the unrelated Anglo-Saxon "calc" rune
ᛣ has exactly the same shape as Younger Futhark "yr".ee also
*
Algiz
*Younger Futhark References
* [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/01a6/index.htm Unicode Character 'LATIN LETTER YR' (U+01A6) at Fileformat.info]
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