Gyfu is the name for the g-rune ᚷ in the Anglo-Saxonrune poem, meaning "gift" or "generosity": A rune can mean a single character in the Runic alphabet as well as an inscription of several runic charcters or symbols. ... Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... The rune poems list the letters of a runic alphabet with a short verse characterizing each one. ...
ᚷ Gyfu gumena byþ gleng and herenys,
wraþu and wyrþscype and wræcna gehwam
ar and ætwist, ðe byþ oþra leas.
Generosity brings credit and honour, which support one's dignity;
it furnishes help and subsistence
to all broken men who are devoid of aught else.
The corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet is 𐌲 g, called giba. The same rune is also appears in the Elder Futhark, with a suggested Proto-Germanic name gebô "gift". J. H. Looijeng speculates (Looijenga 1997, p. 56) that the rune is directly derived from Latin X, the pronunciation of which may have been similar to Germanic gs in the 1st century, eg. Gothic reihs compared to Latin rex (as opposed to the Etruscan alphabet, where
/𐌗 had a value of [s]). Representation of the Gothic alphabet surrounding its inventor Ulfilas The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed to Wulfila used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language. ... The 24 runes of the Elder Futhark The Elder Futhark (or Elder Fuþark, Older Futhark, Old Futhark) are the oldest form of the runic alphabet, used by Germanic tribes for Proto-Norse and other Migration period Germanic dialects of the 2nd to 8th centuries for inscriptions on artefacts (jewellery... Map of the Pre-Roman Iron Age culture(s) associated with Proto-Germanic, c. ... The letter X is the twenty-fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. ... The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 to 100 according the Gregorian calendar. ... Old Italic refers to a number of related historical alphabets used on the Italian peninsula which were used for some non-Indo-European languages (Etruscan and probably North Picene), various Indo-European languages belonging to the Italic branch (Faliscan and members of the Sabellian group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South... Image File history File links EtruscanX-01. ...
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the Futhark (ancientscripts.com)
Runes around the North Sea and on the Continent AD 150-700 by J. H. Looijenga (dissertation, Groningen University)
/𐌗 had a value of 
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