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Runish

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to runes, runic inscription, or runic language; runic.

    "Hundreds of these Golden Ornaments — Rank-decorations, Family Medals, Gift- pieces, Amulets, or whatever else they may have been — have no letters at all, either runish or otherwise."

  2. 2
    Rough, violent.
  3. 3
    Mysterious; strange.

    "Baltazar is stunned with fear as he watches the floating hand carve mysterious "runisch sauez" (runish writings) (1544-45) in the wall."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English runish, runisch, from Old English *rūnisc, *rȳnisc, rēnisc (“mysterious, mystic”), equivalent to rune + -ish.

Etymology 2

From Middle English runisch, a variant (by confusion) of renisch. Also rennish.

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