швыдкїй

швыдкїй

Old Ruthenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish dialectal szwytki, świtki (“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) (dialectal)

1. fast, quick

   Synonym: бы́стрый (býstryj)

Descendants

• Belarusian: швы́дкі (švýdki), швы́дкій (švýdkij) (dialectal)
• Rusyn: швыткы́й (švŷtkŷ́j)
  • Pannonian Rusyn: швидки́ (švydký)
• Ukrainian: швидки́й (švydkýj)
  • ⇒ Ukrainian: шми́тки́й (šmýtkýj) (dialectal)[2]
    • →? Polish: szmytki (dialectal)
• → Russian: швы́дкий (švýdkij) (dialectal)

References

1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “швидкий”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 398
2. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “шмиткий”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 447

Further reading

• Kotliarevsky, Ivan (1798), “швидкій”, in Собраніе Малороссійскихъ словъ, содержащихся въ Энеидѣ [Collection of Ukrainian words contained in the Eneida] (in Ukrainian), Saint Petersburg: Dependent of M. Parpura, page 23