Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the first six letters f, u, þ (th), o (or a), r, c (=k). See
futharc .
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- noun The
Runic alphabet as used to writeOld English .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The runes taken collectively are properly called the futhorc, the word being made up of the names of the first of the runes.
Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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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
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On the next page, in the course of a brief mention of futhorc runes, he says "with th—known as the thorn—being elided into a single symbol"; again I was puzzled—it's the symbol that's known as thorn, not whatever he means by the "th being elided."
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Hence the letter collection was known as futhark, futhark, futhorc, or futhork.
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