Haglaz
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Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse | |||
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*Hag(a)laz | Hægl | Hagall | ||||
"hail" | ||||||
Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark | |||
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Unicode |
| ᚼ U+16BC | ᚽ U+16BD | |||
Transliteration | h | |||||
Transcription | h | |||||
IPA | [h] | |||||
Position in rune-row | 9 | 7 |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/H-rune.jpg/300px-H-rune.jpg)
Various forms of the haglaz rune in the Elder Futhark
*Haglaz or *Hagalaz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the h-rune ᚺ, meaning "hail" (the precipitation).
In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as hægl, and, in the Younger Futhark, as ᚼ hagall. The corresponding Gothic letter is