Run away "flee in the face of danger" is from late 14c. To run around with "consort with" is from 1887. To run short "exhaust one's supply" is from 1752 to run out of in the same sense is from 1713. To run across "meet" is attested from 1855, American English.to run (something) into the ground, 1836, American English). Many figurative uses are from horseracing or hunting (e.g. Phrase run for it "take flight" is attested from 1640s. Meaning "seek office in an election" is from 1826, American English. Meaning "be in charge of" is first attested 1861, originally American English. Of streams, etc., from c.1200 of machinery, from 1560s.Both are from PIE *ri-ne-a-, nasalized form of root *reie- "to flow, run" (see Rhine).The second is Old English transitive weak verb ærnan, earnan "ride, run to, reach, gain by running" (probably a metathesis of *rennan), from Proto-Germanic *rannjanan, causative of the root *ren- "to run." This is cognate with Old Saxon renian, Old High German rennen, German rennen, Gothic rannjan. Middle Dutch runnen, Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic rinnan, German rinnen "to flow, run"). The first is intransitive rinnan, irnan "to run, flow, run together" (past tense ran, past participle runnen), cognate with (cf. the modern verb is a merger of two related Old English words, in both of which the first letters sometimes switched places.
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