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Jera (also Jeran, Jeraz) is the conventional name of the ''j''-rune of the Elder Futhark, from a reconstructed Common Germanic stem '' *''〔C.f. Page (2005:15). The word may have been either neuter or masculine in Common Germanic.〕 meaning "harvest, (good) year". The corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet is Gothic , named ''jēr'', also expressing /j/. The Elder Futhark rune gives rise to the Anglo-Frisian runes , named ''gēr'' , and , named ''ior'', and to the Younger Futhark ''ár'' rune , which stood for as the phoneme had disappeared in Old Norse. ==Name== The reconstructed Common Germanic name ' is the origin of English year (Old English ''ġēar''). In contrast to the modern word, it had a meaning of "season" and specifically "harvest", and hence "plenty, prosperity". The Germanic word is cognate with Greek (''horos'') "year" (and (''hora'') "season", whence ''hour''), Slavonic ''jarŭ'' "spring" and with the ''-or-'' in Latin ''hornus'' "of this year" (from '' *ho-jōrinus''), as well as Avestan ''yāre'' "year", all from a PIE stem '. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jēran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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