hurry
English
/ˈhʌ.ɹi/, /ˈhʌ.ɹi/, [ˈhɝ.ɹi]
noun
Definitions
- Rushed action.
- Urgency.
- (American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
- (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English horien (impel, rush) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hurzaną (rush) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (run, hurry).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱers-
Gloss
run, hurry
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
走
Emoji
🎽 🏃 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️ 💨
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cursus English
- curule English
- hurrier English
- hurrisome English
- hurrysome English
- incursive English
- occurrent English
- parkour English
- recur English
- recurse English
- recursively English
- recursivity English
- reoccur English
- reoccurrence English
- unhurriable English
- -torium Latin
- accurro Latin
- antecurro Latin
- carrus Latin
- carrūca Latin
- circumcurro Latin
- concurro Latin
- currere Latin
- curriculum Latin
- currilis Latin
- currulis Latin
- currō Latin
- cursio Latin
- curso Latin
- cursor Latin
- cursorius Latin
- cursus Latin
- curulis Latin
- decurro Latin
- discurro Latin
- discurrō Latin
- discursivus Latin
- discursus Latin
- excurro Latin
- incurrere Latin
- incurro Latin
- incursio Latin
- incursionem, incursio Latin
- occurro Latin
- occurrō Latin
- percurro Latin
- praecurro Latin
- recurrens Latin
- recurrentia Latin
- recurro Latin
- recursiō Latin
- recursus Latin
- succurro Latin
- succurrēre Latin
- viam Latin
- steppicursore Italian
- herrie Dutch, Flemish
- hurriën Dutch, Flemish
- courir French
- ἐπίκουρος Ancient Greek
- *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱr̥sós Proto-Indo-European
- *hrussą Proto-Germanic
- *hurskaz Proto-Germanic
- *hurskijaną Proto-Germanic
- *hurzaną Proto-Germanic
- russ Swedish
- horien Middle English
- socouren Middle English
- hross Old Norse
- coreor Old French
- occurrence Middle French
- correr Old Portuguese
- *karros Proto-Celtic
- russ Old Swedish
- *korzō Proto-Italic
- corrieu Old Occitan
- teure West Flemish