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Fehu
| Name | Proto-Germanic | Old English | Old Norse |
|---|---|---|---|
| *Fehu | Feoh | Fé | |
| "livestock → (loose) wealth" | |||
| Shape | Elder Futhark | Futhorc | Younger Futhark |
 | |||
| Unicode | ᚠ U+16A0 | ||
| Transliteration | f | ||
| Transcription | f | f | f |
| IPA | [f] | ||
| Position in rune-row | 1 | ||
Fehu is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name for the rune ᚠ (Old Norse: fé; Old English: feoh), found as the first rune in all futharks (runic alphabets starting with F, U, Þ, Ą, R, K), i.e. the Germanic Elder Futhark, the Anglo-Frisian Futhark and the Norse Younger Futhark, with continued use in the later medieval runes, early modern runes and Dalecarlian runes.[citation needed]
It corresponds to the letter f in the Latin alphabet, but it can periodically shift into the sound value of v (compare "leaf" and "leaves").[citation needed]
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