English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos
English runestone
From rune + stone.
Pronunciation
Noun
runestone (plural runestones)
- (archaeology) An ancient monument consisting of a typically raised stone with a runic inscription.
- A small tile-shaped stone or tablet with a single rune inscribed on it, used for divinatory and esoteric purposes.
Translations
stone with a runic inscription
- Catalan: pedra rúnica f
- Danish: runesten (da) c
- Dutch: runensteen (nl) m
- Esperanto: runŝtono
- Estonian: ruunikivi
- Finnish: riimukivi (fi)
- French: pierre runique f
- Galician: pedra rúnica f
- German: Runenstein (de) m
- Hebrew: אֶבֶן רוּנוֹת
- Ido: runpetro
- Indonesian: batu Rune
- Italian: pietra runica f
- Lithuanian: runų akmuo m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: runestein m, runesten m
- Nynorsk: runestein m
- Polish: kamień runiczny m
- Portuguese: pedra rúnica f
- Russian: руни́ческий ка́мень m (runíčeskij kámenʹ)
- Spanish: piedra rúnica f (cf. estela rúnica f)
- Swedish: runsten (sv) c
- Ukrainian: руні́чний ка́мінь m (runíčnyj káminʹ)
- Volapük: raunaston
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