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Rine vs Rune - What's the difference?

rine | rune |

As nouns the difference between rine and rune

is that rine is a watercourse or ditch or rine can be while rune is air-hole (of a chimney).

As a verb rine

is to touch.

rine

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rinen, from (etyl) .

Verb

(rin)
  • To touch.
  • To concern; affect.
  • To pertain to; fall to.
  • To tend to a certain effect or outcome.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rune, from (etyl) . See (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A watercourse or ditch.

    • Etymology 3

    Variation of (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • rune

    English

    (runes)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
  • A Finnish poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
  • Any verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; an incantation.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, page 15:
    • the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.
  • (obsolete) A roun.

    • Derived terms

    * runecraft * runelore * runester * runology, runologist

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