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Wasn't it Bilbo who named Sting Sting? I don't think that was it's original name and so I doubt that is what the runes on it say.
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Yes, you are absoultely right, Salocin. After he kills the first spider, the one that was trying to bind him with its webs, Bilbo wipes and sheaths the sword:
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"I will give you a name," he said to it, "and I shall call you Sting".
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I doubt somehow that whoever forged it in Gondolin foresaw that. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]