Etymograph

English

sheeprun

Sheeprun comes from English run ‘animal enclosure’.

  1. English1500–presentrun1‘animal enclosure’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1979sheeprun1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English sheeprun
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1979, Joan Simon, Education and Society in Tudor England: “When contemporaries complained that the extension of sheepruns left…”.

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentrunWiktionary, English sheeprun‘animal enclosure’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1979sheeprunWiktionary, English sheeprun. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1979, Joan Simon, Education and Society in Tudor England: “When contemporaries complained that the extension of sheepruns left…”

A compound of sheep + run ‘animal enclosure’

Proto-Germanic *skēpą

Proto-West Germanic *skāp

Old English sċēap

Middle English schep

English sheep

Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- ‘to boil, churn’

Proto-Germanic *rinnaną ‘to run’

Old English rinnan ‘to run’

Middle English rinnen ‘to run’

Middle English runnen ‘to run’

English run

Every English word from English run

Today it means

noun A sheep farm.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sheeprun”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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