English
forecourse
From fore- + course?
Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’
Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’
Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’
English fore-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- ‘to run’
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Latin currō ‘run’
Latin cursus ‘course of a race’
Old French cours ‘route’
Middle English cours ‘a course or path’
English course
Today it means
noun The lowest foresail on a square-rigged foremast.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / forecourse