This week’s theme
Words originating in running

This week’s words
au courant
runnel
concur
palindrome
excursus

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PRONUNCIATION:

(RUHN-l)

MEANING:

noun: A small stream or channel.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English rinnan (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root rei- (to flow or run), which also gave us run, rival, and derive. Earliest documented use: 1577.

USAGE:

“Courts became runnels for judicial cruelty, dispensing sentences vastly more severe than anything usual for similar crimes.”
China Miéville; ‘Oh, London, You Drama Queen’; The New York Times Magazine; Mar 4, 2012.

See more usage examples of runnel in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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