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'Jēran' or 'Jæran' (''
★ jē₂ram''; Gothic ''jēr'', Anglo-Frisian ''ȝēr'' /yēr/, Old High German and Old Saxon ''jār'', Old Norse ''ār'') "harvest, (good) year" is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the ''j''-rune of the Elder Futhark.
Proto-Germanic ''
★ jē₂ram'' is cognate with Avestan ''yāre'' "year", Greek ὧρος "year" (and ὥρα "season", whence ''hour''), Slavonic ''jarŭ'' "spring" and with the ''-or-'' in Latin ''hornus'' "of this year" (from ''
★ ho-jōrinus''), all from a PIE stem ''.
The rune in the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc is continued as ''Gēr'' and ''Ior'', the latter a bind rune of Gyfu and Is (compare also ''Ear'').
Its name is continued as ᛅ ''Ár'' in the Younger Futhark. The corresponding Gothic letter is 𐌾 ''j'', named ''jer'', which is also based on the shape of the Elder Futhark rune. This is an exception, shared with urus, due to the fact that neither the Latin nor the Greek alphabets at the time of the introduction of the Gothic one had graphemes corresponding to the distinction of ''j'' and ''w'' from ''i'' and ''u''.
The derivation of the rune is uncertain; some scholars see it as a modification of Latin G ("C (ᚲ) with stroke") while others consider it a Germanic innovation. The letter in any case appears from the very earliest runic inscriptions, figuring on the Vimose comb inscription, ''harja''.

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★ J. H. Looijenga, ''Runes around the North Sea and on the Continent AD 150-700'', dissertation, Groningen University (1997), p. 76.

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★ Elder Futhark

★ Rune poem