runic

From rune +‎ -ic.

• enPR: ro͞onʹik, IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːnɪk/

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runic (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or written using runes.
2. Of a song or verse, mystically or obscurely expressed.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 164:

     Then flowered the mead, then leafed all
     'Twas caused by the runic lay.

• incur

Borrowed from German runisch or French runique.

runic m or n (feminine singular runică, masculine plural runici, feminine and neuter plural runice)

1. runic