harbinger
/haarbinjer/ • noun a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of something. — ORIGIN originally denoting a person who provides or goes ahead to find lodging: from Old French herbergere, from an obsolete Low German dialect word meaning ‘shelter for an army, lodging’.
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