Jēran or Jæran (*j
ē2ram; Gothic jēr, Anglo-Frisian ȝēr /yēr/, Old High German and Old Saxon jār, Old Norse ār) "
harvest, (good)
year" is the reconstructed
Proto-Germanic name of the j-
rune of the
Elder Futhark. Proto-Germanic *jē2ram is cognate with
Avestan yāre "year",
Greek "year" (and "season", whence
hour), Slavonic jarŭ "spring" and with the -or- in Latin hornus "of this year" (from *ho-jōrinus), all from a
PIE stem .The rune in the
Anglo-Saxon Futhorc is continued as Gēr and Ior, the latter a
bind rune of
Gyfu and
Is (compare also
Ear). Its name is continued as ᛅ Ár in the Younger Futhark. The corresponding
Gothic letter is 𐌾 j, named jer, which is also based on the shape of the Elder Futhark rune. This is an exception, shared with
urus, due to the fact that neither the
Latin nor the
Greek alphabets at the time of the introduction of the Gothic one had graphemes corresponding to the distinction of
j and
w from i and u.
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