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Mannaz

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Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English	Old Norse
	*Mannaz	Mann	Maðr
	"man, human"
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc	Younger Futhark
Shape
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 poem^[1]	English translation
Norwegian ᛉ Maðr er moldar auki; mikil er græip á hauki.	Man is an augmentation of the soil; great is the claw of the hawk.
Icelandic ᛉ Maðr er manns gaman ok moldar auki ok skipa skreytir.	Man is the joy of man and augmentation of the soil and adorner of ships.
Anglo-Saxon ᛗ Man bẏþ on mẏrgþe his magan leof: sceal þeah anra gehƿẏlc oðrum sƿican, forðum drẏhten ƿẏle dome sine þæt earme flæsc eorþan betæcan.	The joyous man is dear to his kinsmen; yet every man is doomed to fail his fellow, since the Lord by his decree will commit the vile carrion to the earth.