Etymology

frontrunner

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English runner ← Middle English frount ← Old French front
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The story

  1. Latinfrontem
  2. Old Frenchfront
  3. Middle Englishfrount
  4. Englishfront
  5. Englishrunner
  6. English todayfrontrunner

From front + runner.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.