Mannaz

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See Man (word) for the Germanic etymology. See Mannus for the mythological ancestor recorded by Tacitus.

Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English	Old Norse
	*Mannaz	Mann	Maðr
	"man, human"
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc	Younger Futhark
Unicode	ᛗ U+16D7		ᛘ U+16D8	ᛙ U+16D9
Transliteration	m
Transcription	m
IPA	[m]
Position in rune-row	20		14

Two early forms of the m-rune of the Younger Futhark.

*Mannaz is the conventional name of the m-rune ᛗ of the Elder Futhark. It is derived from the reconstructed Common Germanic word for "man", *mannaz.

Younger Futhark ᛘ is maðr ("man"). It took up the shape of the algiz rune ᛉ, replacing Elder Futhark ᛗ.

As its sound value and form in the Elder Futhark indicate, it is derived from the letter M (𐌌) in the Old Italic alphabets, ultimately from the Greek letter Mu (μ).

Rune poems

The rune is recorded in all three Rune Poems, in the Norwegian and Icelandic poems as maðr, and in the Anglo-Saxon poem as man.

Modern usage

For the "man" rune of the Armanen Futharkh  as "life rune" in Germanic mysticism and Neo-Nazism, see Lebensrune.

References

See also

Look up Appendix:Proto-Germanic/mann- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Look up maðr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.