English

prerun

From pre- + run.

Formed from pre- + run

Proto-Italic *prai ‘before’

Proto-Italic *prai- ‘pre-, before’

English pre-

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

Today it means

noun The act of running something in advance.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.