Ur (rune)

Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English		Old Norse
	*Ūruz/*Ūrą	Ūr	Ȳr	Úr	stung Úr
	"aurochs"/"water"	"aurochs"	?	“windy, cold drizzle/snowfall” “dross”
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc		Younger Futhark
Unicode	ᚢ U+16A2	ᚢ U+16A2	ᚣ U+16A3	ᚢ U+16A2	ᚤ U+16A4
Transliteration	u	u	y	u	y
Transcription	u	u	y	u, o, y, œ w / v	y, œ v
IPA	[u(ː)]	[u(ː)]	[y(ː)]	[u] ⓘ [ø] ⓘ [y] ⓘ [œ] ⓘ [v] ⓘ [w] ⓘ	[y] ⓘ [œ] ⓘ [v] ⓘ
Position in rune-row	2	2	27	2₁	2₂

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Ur is the recorded name for the rune ᚢ in both Old English and Old Norse, found as the second rune in all runic alphabets (futharks), i.e. Germanic Elder Futhark, Anglo-Frisian Futhark and Norse Younger Futhark. It corresponds to the letter u in the Latin alphabet, but also carries other sound values, especially in Younger Futhark, were its sound values correspond to the vowels: [u] ^ⓘ, [ø] ^ⓘ, [y] ^ⓘ and [œ] ^ⓘ etc, and the consonants: [v] ^ⓘ and [w] ^ⓘ etc, in the Latin alphabet. The sound value [v] could also be carried by Fé ᚠ.

It may have been derived from the Raetic alphabet character u as it is similar in both shape and sound value. It is also found as the 16th letter in the Gothic alphabet (𐌿), the corresponding name being urus.