::Jēran

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Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English		Old Norse
	*Jē₂ra-	Gēr	Īor	Ár
	"year, harvest"		"eel"	"harvest, plenty"
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc		Younger Futhark
Unicode	ᛃ U+16C3	ᛄ U+16C4	ᛡ U+16E1	ᛅ U+16C5	ᛆ U+16C6
Transliteration	j		io	a
Transcription	j		io	a
IPA	[j]		[jo]	[a]
Position in rune-row	12		28 or 29	10

Jera (also Jeran, Jeraz) is the conventional name of the j-rune ᛃ of the Elder Futhark, from a reconstructed Common Germanic stem *jē₂ra-{{#invoke:Category handler|main}}<ref name=PAGE>C.f. Page (2005:15). The word may have been either neuter or masculine in Common Germanic.</ref> meaning "harvest, (good) year".

The corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet is Gothic , named jēr, also expressing /j/. The Elder Futhark rune gives rise to the Anglo-Frisian runes ᛄ /j/, named gēr /jeːr/, and ᛡ /io/, named ior, and to the Younger Futhark ár rune ᛅ, which stood for /a/ as the /j/ phoneme had disappeared in Old Norse.

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