hasty

Meaning

Adjective

• Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick

Origin

• From Middle English hasty, of unclear origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hastig, Middle Dutch haestigh (> Dutch haastig), Middle Low German hastich, German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst, of same ultimate origin.