skynda
Swedish
verb-reg
Definitions
- (reflexive) to hurry; to move quickly, to do something quickly
- (rare) to hurry to do something; to do something as soon as possible
- (with "till") to (quickly) approach someone in order to offer help or assistance
- (intransitive) to hurry up, to move or act faster
- (transitive) to rush someone or something; to cause to move or act faster
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish skynda inherited from Old Norse skynda inherited from Proto-Germanic *skundijanÄ… (rush, drive, push, compel, speed up, accelerate).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skundijanÄ…
Gloss
rush, drive, push, compel, speed up, accelerate
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- headshunt English
- minishunt English
- shunt English
- shuntable English
- shunter English
- *(s)kewt- Proto-Indo-European
- *sku(n)t- Proto-Indo-European
- *skundijanÄ… Proto-Germanic
- scyan Old English
- scyndan Old English
- shunten Middle English
- skunda Old Norse
- skynda Old Norse
- skynde Danish
- skunda Faroese
- scunden Old Dutch
- skynda Old Swedish