haste
English
/heɪst/
noun
Definitions
- Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
- (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hasten, hast (haste) borrowed from Old French haste borrowed from Frankish *hai(f)st, *haifsti (violence, haste) inherited from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (struggle, conflict, violence) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (anger, ridicule, mock).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱeyp-
Gloss
anger, ridicule, mock
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
怒
Emoji
😠
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hassle English
- hasslefree English
- hassler English
- hasslesome English
- hassly English
- hast English
- hasteful English
- hasteless English
- hastelessness English
- hastely English
- hasten English
- hastener English
- hastenest English
- hasteneth English
- hastest English
- hasteth English
- hastily English
- hastiness English
- hastish English
- hasty English
- overhaste English
- overhasty English
- post English
- posthaste English
- unhasty English
- Hast German
- hastig German
- haasten Dutch, Flemish
- onthaasten Dutch, Flemish
- overhaasten Dutch, Flemish
- *ḱeyp- Proto-Indo-European
- *haifstiz Proto-Germanic
- förhasta Swedish
- hasta Swedish
- hæfst Old English
- hæst Old English
- hast Middle English
- hasten Middle English
- hasty Middle English
- haven Middle English
- haste Danish
- hastelov Danish
- haste Old French
- hasol Cebuano
- hâte Norman
- hasel Tagalog
- haste Middle French
- 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 Gothic
- hast Middle Low German
- *hai(f)st, *haifsti Frankish