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Run comes from Middle English runnen ‘to run’, an alteration of rinnen, from Old English rinnan ‘to run’, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną ‘to run’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃reyH-¹‘to boil, churn’reconstructed
2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*rinnaną¹‘to run’reconstructed
3. Old Englishc. 450–1150rinnan¹‘to run’
4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rinnen¹‘to run’
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500runnen¹‘to run’
6. Englishearliest quotation 1603run¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English run
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes: “Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himselfe.”.