runemaster
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A runesmith; one skilled at carving and deciphering runes.
Example Sentences
- "Without delay he got it taken out and removed to the Palace-yard, and afterwards commissioned the Rune-master Olaf Worm to visit and decipher it."
- "This great period of older English, set down by the rune-masters and then by medieval scribes using the roman alphabet, came to an end with the invention of printing in the late fifteenth century."
- "This excerpt from the histories of a contemporary of the Teutonic runemasters is, as far as can be determined, factual[.]"
- "The Rune Masters of the Teutons and Vikings wore startling garb that made them easily recognizable. Feared, honored, welcomed, these shamans were familiar figures in tribal circles."
- "This stone, not attached to any grave and probably originally part of a ritual stone arrangement, is then charged by the force of the runemaster in this threatening aspect of "the malicious one" and "the raven.""
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *rūnābor.? Proto-Germanic *rūnō Proto-Germanic *rūnǭ Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo) Old Norse rúnbor. English rune Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.? Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *magisteros Latin magister, magistrum Old French maistrebor. ▲ Latin magisterder. Old English mǣġester Middle English maister English master English runemaster From rune + master.