Etymology

ultraswift

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Today it means: Extraordinarily swift; of utmost swiftness. Full definition →

English swift ← Middle English swift ← Old English swift
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The story

  1. Englishultra-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ksweybʰ-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*kswéybʰ-e-ti
  4. Proto-Germanic*swībaną
  5. Old Englishswīfan
  6. Old Englishswift
  7. Middle Englishswift
  8. Englishswift
  9. English todayultraswift

From ultra- + swift.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.