Name | ||||
"lake"/"leek" | "ocean, sea" | "water, waterfall" | ||
Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark | |
Unicode | ᛚ
U+16DA
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Transliteration | l | |||
Transcription | l | |||
IPA | [l] | |||
Position in rune-row | 21 | 13 |
*Laguz or *Laukaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the l-rune ᛚ, *laguz meaning "water" or "lake" and *laukaz meaning "leek". In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, it is called lagu "ocean". In the Younger Futhark, the rune is called lögr "waterfall" in Icelandic and logr "water" in Norse.
The corresponding Gothic letter is ...
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