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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a swift or quick person. · A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014. · Alternative letter-case form of SWIFT (“Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication”). · An unincorporated community in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ksweybʰ-der. Proto-Indo-European *kswéybʰ-e-ti Proto-Germanic *swībaną Old English swīfan Old English swift Middle English swift English swiftder. English Swift Derived from swift, from Middle English swift, from Old English swift, from swīfan, from Proto-Germanic *swībaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kswéybʰ-e-ti, from *ksweybʰ-.
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