Laguz
' or ' is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name of the "l"-rune , meaning "water" or "lake" and meaning "leek". In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, it is called "ocean". In the Younger Futhark, the rune is called "waterfall" in Icelandic and "water" in Norse. The corresponding Gothic letter is 𐌻 "l", named . The rune is identical in shape to the letter "l" in the Raetic alphabet. The "leek" hypothesis is based not on the rune poems, but rather on early inscriptions where the rune has been hypothesized to abbreviate , a symbol of fertility, see the Bülach fibula.