Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The common Germanic runic alphabet.
- noun The Old English runic alphabet.
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- noun The
Germanic runic alphabet ; especially specifically the Elder or Younger futhark alphabet (of Scandinavia and the European mainland), as contrasted with the Anglo-Saxonfuthorc .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Scandinavians used something different called futhark.
The Athena Project Brad Thor 2010
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Hence the letter collection was known as futhark, futhark, futhorc, or futhork.
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On one side was etched the complete, sixteen-character short-twig runic alphabet or futhark, the style of which dates it to the earliest Norse settlements.
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Yes, and English is written with the Roman alphabet, not with the Anglo-Saxon futhark.
Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009
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Yes, and English is written with the Roman alphabet, not with the Anglo-Saxon futhark.
Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009
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The symbols seemed to be a standard version of the futhark, the Norse runic alphabet named for its first six letters.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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"It looks like the futhark symbol for the letter F, with the arms angled up on the right side, only here it's got three arms instead of two and it's repeated symmetrically on the other side."
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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"It looks like the futhark symbol for the letter F, with the arms angled up on the right side, only here it's got three arms instead of two and it's repeated symmetrically on the other side."
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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How many know what the futhark is, and how it differs from the futhorc?
Defending the Tolkien Snobs Richard Nokes 2005
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How many know what the futhark is, and how it differs from the futhorc?
Archive 2005-11-01 Richard Nokes 2005
johnmperry commented on the word futhark
also fuþark
July 21, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word futhark
also see younger futhark
July 21, 2008