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Range comes from Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier ‘to rank’, from rang ‘a row’, from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz ‘ring’.

1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hringaz¹‘ring, circle’reconstructed
2. Frankishc. 250–700*hring¹reconstructed
3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400rang¹‘a rank, row’
4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400rengier¹‘to range, rank’
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rengen¹
6. Englishearliest quotation 1590range¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English range
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book II, Canto VII: “Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred…”.