runic

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It is trilingual--viz., Chinese, Uighur, and runic or Yenissei characters.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or written in runes.
  2. noun The Germanic language of the oldest runic inscriptions from northern Europe, dating to between the third and sixth centuries A.D., and considered by some to be close to or identical with the putative common ancestor of the North and West Germanic languages.

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  • It is trilingual--viz., Chinese, Uighur, and runic or Yenissei characters. —  The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
  • Bark was next pressed into the service of literature and, it has often been suggested, possibly gave rise to the word book, although it seems more likely that book was of runic origin and derived from the beech-staves--Buch-staben, on which the runes were expressed Nineveh and its Remains, by Sir Henry Layard, ii., 185 Eventually vellum entirely took the place of papyrus, but papyrus was used not only in Egypt, but in imperial Rome before vellum became common, and even biblical manuscripts were written on rolls of this material. —  Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
  • They build up runic power as they're in combat, and this lets them use some of their more powerful abilities. —  Startups | Home
  • I did eventually find such a case: the article on runic alphabet says, in part: —  Planet Perl
  • In the Poetic Edda poem Rígþula another origin is related of how the runic alphabet became known to man. —  Planet Perl
 

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  1. = French runique = Spanish rúnico = Portuguese Italian runico, from New Latin runicus, from runa, a rune: see rune.
 

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