швыдкїй

Old Ruthenian

Etymology

First attested in the late 18th century. Borrowed from Polish obsolete and dialectal szwytki (agile, quick, dashing), from Middle Low German swît, from Old Saxon swīth, from Proto-West Germanic *swinþ, from Proto-Germanic *swinþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swéntos.[1]

Adjective

швыдкїй • (švydkij)

  1. (dialectal) fast, quick
    Synonyms: быстрый (bystryj), жвавый (žvavyj), прудкїй (prudkij)

Declension

Descendants

  • Belarusian: швы́дкі (švýdki) (dialectal)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: швыткы́й (švŷtkŷ́j)
  • Ukrainian: швидки́й (švydkýj)
  • Russian: швы́дкий (švýdkij), шви́дкий (švídkij) (dialectal)

References

  1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “швидкий”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 398

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