Fehu

NameProto-GermanicOld EnglishOld Norse
*FehuFeoh
"livestock(loose) wealth"
ShapeElder FutharkFuthorcYounger Futhark
Unicode
U+16A0
Transliterationf
Transcriptionfff
IPA[f]
Position in
rune-row
1

Fehu is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name for the rune (Old Norse: ; Old English: feoh), found as the first rune in all futharks (runic alphabets starting with F, U, Þ, Ą, R, K), i.e. the Germanic Elder Futhark, the Anglo-Frisian Futhark and the Norse Younger Futhark, with continued use in the later medieval runes, early modern runes and Dalecarlian runes.[citation needed]

It corresponds to the letter f in the Latin alphabet, but it can periodically shift into the sound value of v (compare "leaf" and "leaves").[citation needed]


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