Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To urge onward; to hasten. · To move with haste.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorySpeed; swiftness; dispatch. · Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), Old English hǣst (“violence”), Old English hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adjective), Old Norse heift /heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionhastenenm
- Cognate mentionhaastennl
- Cognate mentionhastende
- Cognate mentionhasteda
- Cognate mentionhastasv
- Inherited-form mentionhastenm
- Derivation mentionhastefro
- Inherited-form mention*haifstizgem-pro
- Derivation mention*ḱeyp-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionhāstofs
- Cognate mentionhǣstang
- Cognate mentionhǣsteang
- Cognate mentionheift//heiptnon
- Cognate mention𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃got
- Cognate mentionheftigde
- Cognate mentionheftigda
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