Ansuz rune Totally Explained

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The a-rune, Younger Futhark was probably named after the Æsir, in Proto-Germanic *Ansuz.
   The shape of the rune is likely from Neo-Etruscan a, like Latin A ultimately from Phoenician Aleph.
   Its name survives only in the Icelandic rune poem as Óss, however, referring to Odin, identified with Jupiter:
ť Óss er algingautr

    ok ásgarðs jöfurr, ť ok valhallar vísi.

    Jupiter oddviti. ť Óss is aged Gautr

    and prince of Ásgardr ť and lord of Vallhalla.

    chief Jupiter
   Ihe Norwegian rune poem, Óss has a meaning of "estuary" while in the Anglo-Saxon one, Futhorc Os has the Latin meaning of "mouth". The Younger Futhark rune is transliterated as ą to distinguish it from the new Ár rune (ᛅ), which contines the Jēran rune after loss of prevocalic *j- in Proto-Norse *jár (Old Saxon jār).
   The name of a in the Gothic alphabet is ahsa. The common Germanic name of the rune may thus have either been ansuz "God, one of the Æsir", or ahsam "ear (of corn)".
   A variant of the rune is Futharc Æsc "ash". The Latin ligature Æ in Old English was called Æsc after the rune. Another variant is Ac "oak" .

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