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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bind rune"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "moonrune"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "moon rune"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runecarver"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runecast"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runecaster"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runecasting"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runecraft"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runed"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runeless"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runelike"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runelore"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runemaster"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "rune poem"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "rune-rister"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "rune-risting"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runesmith"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runesong"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runestaff"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runestave"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runester"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runestone"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runework"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runic"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runically"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runiform"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runographer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runographic"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runography"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runologist"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "runology"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slavrune"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "twig rune"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cmn",
"2": "盧恩",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Mandarin: 盧恩／卢恩 (lú'ēn)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Mandarin: 盧恩／卢恩 (lú'ēn)"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "rún"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse rún",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*rūnō",
"4": "",
"5": "letter, literature, secret"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *rūnō (“letter, literature, secret”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cel-pro",
"3": "*rūnā"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Celtic *rūnā",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "rune"
},
"expansion": "Dutch rune",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Rune"
},
"expansion": "German Rune",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "rune"
},
"expansion": "Danish rune",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "runa"
},
"expansion": "Swedish runa",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "roun"
},
"expansion": "roun",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *rūnō (“letter, literature, secret”), which is borrowed either from Proto-Celtic *rūnā or from the same source as it; compare Dutch rune, German Rune, Danish rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "runes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "rune (plural runes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1970, Richard Hamer, editor, A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse, Croydon: Faber & Faber, page 76",
"text": "Runes were the letters of an ancient Germanic alphabet, ultimately derived from the Mediterranean alphabets, which was used for carving on wood or stone and which to some extent survived the introduction of writing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 32",
"text": "\"Finding you somewhere to live isn't going to be easy,\" he said. \"We must cast the runes,\" said Catweazle. \"They will tell us.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons."
],
"id": "en-rune-en-noun-MI4JlQPq",
"links": [
[
"letter",
"letter"
],
[
"character",
"character"
],
[
"written",
"written"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"ancient",
"ancient"
],
[
"Germanic",
"Germanic"
],
[
"people",
"people"
],
[
"Scandinavians",
"Scandinavians"
],
[
"Anglo-Saxons",
"Anglo-Saxons"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "rune"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "run"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "runa",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "руна"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "盧恩"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lú'ēn",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "卢恩"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "rune"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "rune"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rún"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "riimu"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "riimukirjain"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rune"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rune"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Runenbuchstabe"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Runenzeichen"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "roúnos",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ρούνος"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "rúna"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rún"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rúnscríbhinn"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rūn-moji",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "ルーン文字"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "runa",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "руна"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "runa",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "руна"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "roon"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "rune"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "runestav"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "runetegn"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rune"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "runestav"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "runeteikn"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "non",
"lang": "Old Norse",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rún"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "gmq-pro",
"lang": "Proto-Norse",
"roman": "runo",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ᚱᚢᚾᛟ"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rúna",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ру́на"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "อักษรรูน"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "rün"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "run"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "runa"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "raunatonat"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "rŵn"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 0 29 0 0 0",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "llythyren rwnig"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala."
],
"id": "en-rune-en-noun-6RIR4ZQK",
"links": [
[
"Finnic",
"Finnic"
],
[
"Scandinavian",
"Scandinavian"
],
[
"epic",
"epic"
],
[
"poem",
"poem"
],
[
"division",
"division"
],
[
"Kalevala",
"Kalevala"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "18 65 1 7 4 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Finnish or Scandinavian poem",
"word": "runo"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 65 1 7 4 5",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "Finnish or Scandinavian poem",
"word": "runo"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 65 1 7 4 5",
"code": "ja",
"english": "poem",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hokuō-koshi",
"sense": "Finnish or Scandinavian poem",
"word": "北欧古詩"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 65 1 7 4 5",
"code": "ja",
"english": "myth",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hokuō-shinwa",
"sense": "Finnish or Scandinavian poem",
"word": "北欧神話"
},
{
"_dis1": "18 65 1 7 4 5",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Finnish or Scandinavian poem",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rune"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2016, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3242: The Dunkelest Brau",
"text": "\"Are the, um, eldritch runes supposed to glow like that?\" \"Dunno. I asked the distributor about 'em and he started shaking really fast like in a Tool video.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A letter or mark used as a mystical or magic symbol."
],
"id": "en-rune-en-noun-Sd9E26lJ",
"links": [
[
"letter",
"letter"
],
[
"mark",
"mark"
],
[
"mystical",
"mystical"
],
[
"magic",
"magic"
],
[
"symbol",
"symbol"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "10 3 62 18 4 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "magičeski znak",
"sense": "mystical letter or mark",
"word": "магически знак"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 3 62 18 4 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mystical letter or mark",
"word": "mystinen merkki"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Where the daylight peeps thro' like the glint of the Moon, / And the branches are rustling a murmurous rune, / The Owls sit in council like prophets of Fate, / Discussing grave questions of Kingdom and State."
},
{
"ref": "1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the \"Stranger People's\" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 15",
"text": "the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation."
],
"id": "en-rune-en-noun-EQYOrkca",
"links": [
[
"verse",
"verse"
],
[
"song",
"song"
],
[
"mystical",
"mystical"
],
[
"mysterious",
"mysterious"
],
[
"overtone",
"overtone"
],
[
"spell",
"spell"
],
[
"incantation",
"incantation"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "5 9 9 62 6 8",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mystical verse or song",
"word": "loitsu"
}
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "secret or mystery",
"word": "roun"
}
],
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of roun (“secret or mystery”)."
],
"id": "en-rune-en-noun--vDZtNAU",
"links": [
[
"roun",
"roun#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative form of roun (“secret or mystery”)."
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"obsolete"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 9 79 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "secret or mystery",
"word": "salaisuus"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "en:Programming",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Software engineering",
"Technology",
"Computer science",
"Engineering",
"Software",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Applied sciences",
"Media",
"Fundamental",
"Communication"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 6 3 6 4 63",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "25 16 2 11 12 34",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Writing systems",
"orig": "en:Writing systems",
"parents": [
"Writing",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"Human",
"Communication",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2016, Shiju Varghese, Go Recipes, Apress, page 12",
"text": "Go language defines the type rune as an alias for the type int32 to represent a Unicode code point. A string in Go is a sequence of runes.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A Unicode code point."
],
"id": "en-rune-en-noun-1t3nVAOW",
"links": [
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"Go",
"Go"
],
[
"programming language",
"programming language"
],
[
"Unicode",
"Unicode"
],
[
"code point",
"code point"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(programming, in the Go programming language) A Unicode code point."
],
"raw_tags": [
"in the Go programming language"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɹuːn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːn"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-rune.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ed/En-us-rune.ogg/En-us-rune.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/En-us-rune.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "ro͞on"
}
],
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"ref": "1970, Richard Hamer, editor, A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse, Croydon: Faber & Faber, page 76",
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"ref": "1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 32",
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"ref": "2016, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3242: The Dunkelest Brau",
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"ref": "1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the \"Stranger People's\" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 15",
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"ref": "2016, Shiju Varghese, Go Recipes, Apress, page 12",
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "rune"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "run"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "runa",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "руна"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "盧恩"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lú'ēn",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "卢恩"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "rune"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "rune"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rún"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "riimu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "riimukirjain"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rune"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rune"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Runenbuchstabe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Runenzeichen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "roúnos",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ρούνος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "rúna"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rún"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rúnscríbhinn"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rūn-moji",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "ルーン文字"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "runa",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "руна"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "runa",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "руна"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "roon"
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "rune"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "letter or character",
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "letter or character",
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "letter or character",
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],
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{
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"tags": [
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],
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
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"roman": "runo",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ᚱᚢᚾᛟ"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rúna",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ру́на"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "runa"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "อักษรรูน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "rün"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "run"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "runa"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "letter or character",
"word": "raunatonat"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "rŵn"
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{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "letter or character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "llythyren rwnig"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Finnish or Scandinavian poem",
"word": "runo"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "Finnish or Scandinavian poem",
"word": "runo"
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{
"code": "ja",
"english": "poem",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hokuō-koshi",
"sense": "Finnish or Scandinavian poem",
"word": "北欧古詩"
},
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"code": "ja",
"english": "myth",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hokuō-shinwa",
"sense": "Finnish or Scandinavian poem",
"word": "北欧神話"
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Finnish or Scandinavian poem",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rune"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "magičeski znak",
"sense": "mystical letter or mark",
"word": "магически знак"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mystical letter or mark",
"word": "mystinen merkki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mystical verse or song",
"word": "loitsu"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "secret or mystery",
"word": "salaisuus"
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"Anglo-Saxon runes",
"runes"
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