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quick

/kˈwɪk/KWIK
/kˈwɪk/KWIK

Meaningliving, alive

Common meaning: fast

Other meanings: alive (archaic)

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√GIW‘orig’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 102, p. 733 · scan
  2. Old Englishcwic‘alive, quick’sourceB&T
  3. Middle Englishquiksource
  4. Englishquick‘fast’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Old English cwic ‘living, alive’.

Did you know ("Quick" once meant…): our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry QUICK, p. 484 · dictionary scan

Did you know (Quick first meant…): our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry QUICK, p. 484 · dictionary scan; Bosworth & Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), entry CWIC, p. 180 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • cwic Old English “living, alive”

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