Form after Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (2013). The asterisk marks a linguistic reconstruction — no recording of Proto-Germanic exists. The IPA follows Ringe's (2006) sound system; the audio is a synthesised approximation. Trust the IPA over the audio.

Inheritance, ancestral land

A diamond with two legs rooted downward — a plot of land, a house with foundations. The final rune of the set: what remains after everything else passes, and can be handed on.

What you inherited from the past — property, values, and habits alike. A time to ask what deserves keeping and what should be set down. It can concern home, land, family, or discovering your roots run deeper than you knew.

Clinging to a past or a tradition that no longer serves you — inheritance disputes, family conflict, or rootlessness. Sometimes it means leaving home in order to learn what home actually was.

Keep what is still alive. Set down what is only habit.