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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hraþē or *hraþō ~ *hradō (“quickly”), equivalent to hræd + -e.
Pronunciation
Adverb
hraþe (comparative hraþor, superlative hraþost)
- fast, quickly
- Old English Heptateuch, Genesis 22:2
"Nim þīnne āncennedan sunu Īsaac, þe þū lufast, and far tō þām lande Visionis hraþe, and ġeoffra hine þǣr uppan ānre dūne."- "Take your only-begotten son Isaac, whom you love, and quickly go to the land of Visionis, and sacrifice him there upon a mountain."
- soon
- early
- c. 900, Werferth, translation of the Dialogues of Gregory
Sume nihte, þā þā hē wel ǣr ārās tō bētenne þā lēoht þe wǣron nēah þǣre dura, and þā stōd hē on triewenre hlǣdre under þām lēohtfæte and ontende and ġebētte þæt lēoht, þā stōd þǣr ofdūne on þǣre flōre sanctus Petrus sē ēadega apostol on hwītum hræġlum, and þus cwæþ tō him, "Þū ġefēra, for hwon ārise þū swā hraðe?"- One night, when he had gotten up very early to kindle the lights near the door, and he was standing on a wooden ladder under the lamp to light the fire, down on the floor stood Saint Peter the apostle dressed in white, and he said to him, "Comrade, why did you get up so early?"
Descendants
- Middle English: rathe, rade, rath, raþ, raþe, rauth, hraþe, hraþa, raðæ, raðe, ræðe, ræðen, reaðe, reðe (Early Middle English)