Othala
Sign in to saveAlso known as ᛟ, Ēðel, Odal, *Ōþala-
' is a rune that is transliterated as o and œ in the Elder Futhark and the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc writing systems respectively. It is known as ("inheritance, home, native land") in Old English, from which hypothetical Proto-Germanic names such as ' have been reconstructed.
Key facts
- Rune.lang1
- pg
- Rune.lang2
- oe
- Rune.name1
- ''''''
- Rune.name2
- ''''''
- Rune.meaning1
- "patrimony"
- Rune.meaning2
- "property, home"
- Rune.shape12
- x50px|class=skin-invert-image
- Rune.unicode hex12
- 16DF
- Rune.transliteration1
- o
- Rune.transliteration2
- œ
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- Odal (rune)
- Unicode character
- ᛟ
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- Name and etymology
- Elder Futhark
- Relation to the Gothic alphabet
- Anglo-Frisian Fuþorc
- Transition to Younger Futhark
- Modern period
- Runology
- Popular culture
- SS-rune
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' is a rune that is transliterated as o and œ in the Elder Futhark and the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc writing systems respectively. It is known as ("inheritance, home, native land") in Old English, from which hypothetical Proto-Germanic names such as ' have been reconstructed.
As with other Elder Futhark runes, the origins of ᛟ are unclear, beyond an ultimate ancestor in the Phoenician alphabet. Various intermediate scripts and characters have been proposed, including the Greek Ω, which closely resembles it. Even more similar to the rune are some symbols representing "o" sounds in Etruscan and Alpine scripts. The rune may in turn be the origin of the Gothic letter 𐍉 ("utal"), used by Wulfila in the 4th century CE for his Gothic Bible, although Greek letters may also have been used as a source.