run
/ɹʌn/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.49 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Run, and you might still catch the train!"
- "Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him."
- "I have been running all over the building looking for him."
- "Sorry, I've got to run; my house is on fire!"
- "Once I ran to you (I ran) / Now I run from you / This tainted love you've given / I give you all a boy could give you"
- "I can run a mile, but I can't run the cross-country course."
Etymology
From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen, yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”). Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), archaic Dutch rinnen (“to flow”, still in geronnen), German rinnen (“to flow”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), and Icelandic renna (“to flow”). From the causative Proto-Germanic *rannijaną (“to make run”) are Dutch rennen, German rennen, Danish rende, Swedish ränna (all “to run”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”), Persian راندن (rândan, “to move, set in motion”). See also random.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃er-, runnen, rinnan, rinna, *rinnaną, *h₃reyH-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹʌn/
- British English: /ɹʌn/
Usage
Inflected Forms
runs (present, singular)
running (participle, present)
ran (past)
ran (colloquial, nonstandard)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
ran (first person, past)
runnest (archaic, present)
ran (past, second person)
ranst (archaic, past)
rannest (archaic, past)
runneth (archaic, present)