race

race
\ \ For such a common wordor rather two words, forpeople, population’ [16] andspeed competition’ [13] are unrelatedsurprisingly little is known about the origins of race. The former comes via French from Italian razza, but the antecedents of razza are obscure. Therunningrace originally meantrush’, and was borrowed from Old Norse rásrush, running, race’ – again, of unknown origin.

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