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Future comes from Middle English future ‘a future action or doing’, from Latin futūrus ‘about to be, about to exist’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to become, be’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰuH-¹‘to become’reconstructed
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsum¹‘to be’
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfutūrus¹‘about to be’irregular future active participle of sum
4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400futur¹
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500future¹‘a future action or doing’
6. Englishearliest quotation 1908future¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English future
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1908, William Blair Morton Ferguson, New York: “So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly…”.