Name | ||
Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc |
Unicode | ᛈ
U+16C8
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Transliteration | p | |
Transcription | p | |
IPA | [p] | |
Position in rune-row | 14 |
ᛈ is the rune denoting the sound p (voiceless bilabial stop) in the Elder Futhark runic alphabet, in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem named peorð. It does not appear in the Younger Futhark. In the poem, it is glossed with the enigmatic:
The name is not comprehensible from Old English, i.e. no word similar to peorð is known in this language. According to a 9th-century manuscript of Alcuin (Codex Vindobonensis 795), written in Britain, in the Gothic alphabet, the letters Wikipedia