Fehu
Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse |
---|---|---|---|
*Fehu | Feoh | Fé | |
"livestock, wealth" | |||
Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark |
Unicode | ᚠ U+16A0 | ||
Transliteration | f | ||
Transcription | f | ||
IPA | [f] | ||
Position in rune-row | 1 |
The Fe rune ᚠ (Old Norse fé; Old English feoh) represents the f and v-sound in the Younger Futhark and Futhorc alphabets. Its name means '(mobile) wealth', cognate to English fee with the original meaning of 'sheep' or 'cattle' (Dutch Vee, German Vieh, Latin pecū, Sanskrit pashu).
The rune derives from the unattested but reconstructed Proto-Germanic *fehu in the Elder Futhark alphabet, with the original meaning of "money, cattle, wealth".[1]
The corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet is