haste
English edit
Etymology edit
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),[1] from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”),[2] 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”, adj), Old Norse heift／heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
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Noun edit
haste (usually uncountable, plural hastes)
- Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
- We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 12:8:
- The king's business required haste.
- 2017, Russell M. Peterson, The Armies of Forever, page 368:
- There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls.
- (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 116:11:
- I said in my haste, All men are liars.
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Verb edit
haste (third-person singular simple present hastes, present participle hasting, simple past and past participle hasted)
- (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 168:
- Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.
- (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
- 1594, “The Wounds of Civill War”, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition)[1]:
- The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.
- 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes[2]:
- He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.
- 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present[3]:
- Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.
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References edit
- ^ Etymology at merriam-webster.com
- ^ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 524
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Basque edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /has̺te/ [has̺.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (Southern) /as̺te/ [as̺.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -as̺te
- Hyphenation: has‧te
Noun edit
haste inan
Declension edit
| indefinite | singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| absolutive | haste | hastea | hasteak |
| ergative | hastek | hasteak | hasteek |
| dative | hasteri | hasteari | hasteei |
| genitive | hasteren | hastearen | hasteen |
| comitative | hasterekin | hastearekin | hasteekin |
| causative | hasterengatik | hastearengatik | hasteengatik |
| benefactive | hasterentzat | hastearentzat | hasteentzat |
| instrumental | hastez | hasteaz | hasteez |
| inessive | hastetan | hastean | hasteetan |
| locative | hastetako | hasteko | hasteetako |
| allative | hastetara | hastera | hasteetara |
| terminative | hastetaraino | hasteraino | hasteetaraino |
| directive | hastetarantz | hasterantz | hasteetarantz |
| destinative | hastetarako | hasterako | hasteetarako |
| ablative | hastetatik | hastetik | hasteetatik |
| partitive | hasterik | — | — |
| prolative | hastetzat | — | — |
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Czech edit
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haste (imperative)
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Audio (file)
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haste
German edit
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haste
- inflection of hasten:
Contraction edit
haste
- (colloquial) contraction of hast du
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French haste.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
haste f (plural hastes)
Descendants edit
- French: hâte
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
haste (present tense hastar, past tense hasta, past participle hasta, passive infinitive hastast, present participle hastande, imperative haste/hast)
- Alternative form of hasta
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence, haste”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“conflict, struggle”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
haste oblique singular, f (oblique plural hastes, nominative singular haste, nominative plural hastes)[1]
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Descendants edit
- Middle French: haste
- French: hâte
- Walloon: hausse (Forrières), håsse (Liégeois)
- → Middle Dutch: haest, haeste, haste, hast (reborrowing[2][3])
- → Middle English: haste, hast
- English: haste
References edit
- ^ Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (haste)
- ^ http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=ONW&id=ID2489&article=haast
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “haast1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From hasta.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: has‧te
Noun edit
haste f (plural hastes)