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: ᚷ ''Gyfu gumena byþ gleng and herenys,'' : ''wraþu and wyrþscype and wræcna gehwam'' : ''ar and ætwist, ðe byþ oþra leas.'' : Generosity brings credit and honour, which support one's dignity; : it furnishes help and subsistence : to all broken men who are devoid of aught else. The corresponding letter of the Gothic Alphabet is 𐌲 ''g'', called ''giba''. The same rune is also appears in the Elder Futhark , with a suggested Proto-Germanic name gebô "gift". J. H. Looijeng speculates (Looijenga 1997, p. 56) that the rune is directly derived from Latin X , the pronunciation of which may have been similar to Germanic ''gs'' in the 1st Century , eg. Gothic ''reihs'' compared to Latin ''rex'' (as opposed to the Etruscan Alphabet , where /𐌗 had a value of ). EXTERNAL LINKS
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