Jera

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Jera

Jāra or Jēra "harvest, (good) year" is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the j-rune ᛃ. In the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, it is continued as ᛄ Gēr and ᛡ Ior, the latter being a bind rune of Gyfu and Is (compare also ᛠ 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.