Naudiz
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Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse | |
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*Naudiz | Nȳd | Nauðr | ||
"need, hardship" | ||||
Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark | |
Unicode | ᚾ U+16BE | ᚾ U+16BE | ᚿ U+16BF | |
Transliteration | n | |||
Transcription | n | |||
IPA | [n] | |||
Position in rune-row | 10 | 8 |
*Naudiz is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the n-rune ᚾ, meaning "need, distress". In the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, it is continued as ᚾ nyd, in the Younger Futhark as ᚾ, Icelandic naud and Old Norse nauðr. The corresponding Gothic letter is