## Etymology
From forerun ('to run before', from Old English fore- plus rinnan) plus the agent suffix -er; a calque of Latin praecursor. It denotes a predecessor or early sign of what follows.

## AI Etymology
Forerunner is from forerun ('to run before', from Old English fore- plus rinnan) plus the agent suffix -er; a calque of Latin praecursor. It denotes a predecessor or early sign of what follows. Important recorded forms include fore (Old English) and rinnan (Old English). Morphologically, the word is a built form whose named elements carry part of the historical sense. The current sense covers a predecessor or early sign of something to come. The wider family includes related words such as forerun, fore, and run.

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- Verbs of Movement
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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