Ur (rune)

Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English		Old Norse
	*Ūruz/Ūrą	Ūr	Ȳr	Úr
	"aurochs" / "water"	"aurochs"	?	"dross"/"rain"
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc		Younger Futhark
Unicode	ᚢ U+16A2	ᚢ U+16A2	ᚣ U+16A3	ᚢ U+16A2
Transliteration	u	u	y	u
Transcription	u	u	y	u, y, o, v / w
IPA	[u(ː)]	[u(ː)]	[y(ː)]	[u(ː)], [y(ː)], [o(ː)], [w]
Position in rune-row	2	2	27	2

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The reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the Elder Futhark u rune ᚢ is *Ūruz meaning "wild ox"^[1] or *Ūrą "water". It may have been derived from the Raetic alphabet character u as it is similar in both shape and sound value. The name of the corresponding letter in the Gothic alphabet is urus.