Talk:rune

I find this etymology suspect:

Borrowing from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *rūnō ‎(“letter, literature, secret”) or from the Proto-Indo-European root *rew- ‎(“to roar; murmur; mumble; whisper”)

Any sources that it is not from *h₃reu- ?

How do you explain the long ū from that? And the different meaning? —CodeCat 22:42, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

See here:

 *h₃reu(hₓ) roar. *h₃reuk-. dig up. Latv rūkīt 'dig' Grk orússō 'dig' OIr rucht 'pig' [i.e. *'one who digs up']) Lat runcō means 'weeds' (<'*pluck') ...

also here:

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [868] *h₃reu-k-? `dig up, grub' Etymology: The general basis of all verbal forms and derived nouns is a stem ὀρυχ-; the media in ὀρυγ- is secondary (cf. Schwyzer 715 a. 760); secondary is also the present ὀρύχω (Schw. 684 f.). -- Without exact agreement outside Greek. As ὀ- can be `prothetic', we can explain the primary yot-present ὀρύσσω from *ὀρυχ-ι̯ω \< *h₃rugh- and compare the nasalinfixed secondary formation Lat. runcō, -āre `weed out, root up', to which a.o. runcō, -ōnis m. `weeding hook', as well as Latv. rūkēt `dig, scrape'; ... 

and our own ruo wiktionary entry. Zezen (talk) 08:47, 11 January 2016 (UTC)