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Middle English
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Etymology
From Old English gerinnan, giernan, equivalent to i- + rennen.
Verb
irennen (third-person singular simple present iernþ, present participle ierniende, first-/third-person singular past indicative iarn, past participle ironne)
- to run (to or towards somewhere)
- (of celestial bodies) to move through the sky
c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 7–8:The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne / Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,- The tender shoots and leaves, and the young sun / His half-course in the sign of the Ram has run,
- (of milk) to curdle
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