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SWIFT
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Muslim
Swift
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English
English : nickname for a rapid runner, from Middle English swift ‘fleet’.Irish : Anglicization (part translation) of Gaelic Ó Fuada (see Foody).Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish name.
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Tamil
Durga, Agile, Efficient, Swift
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Tamil
Turanyu | தà¯à®°à®¾à®¨à¯à®¯à¯
Swift
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English
English : habitational name from one of the places called Fleet, in Dorset, Hampshire, Kent, and Lincolnshire, or from Holt Fleet on the Severn river in Worcestershire, all named with Old English flēot ‘stream’ or ‘estuary’. It may also be a topographic name from the same word used independently.English : nickname for a swift runner, from Middle English flete ‘fleet’, ‘rapid’ (probably from Old English flēotan ‘to float or glide rapidly’, and so ultimately akin to 1).
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English
English : nickname, perhaps for a messenger, from Middle English gÅ(n) ‘to go’ (Old English gÄn) + lihtly ‘lightly’, ‘swiftly’ (Old English lÄ“oht(lÄ«c)).Scottish : altered form of a surname of uncertain origin, possibly an unidentified habitational name. The earliest known bearer is William Galithli, who witnessed a charter at the beginning of the 13th century. Henry Gellatly, an illegitimate son of William the Lion, of whom little or nothing is known, was the grandfather of Patric Galythly, one of the pretenders to the crown of Scotland in 1291.Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac an Ghallóglaigh ‘son of the galloglass’, Irish gallóglach. A galloglass was a mercenary retainer or auxiliary soldier (a compound of gall ‘foreigner’ (see Gall 1) + óglach ‘youth’, ‘warrior’). The name is also found pseudo-translated as English.
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Irish (especially County Waterford)
Irish (especially County Waterford) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉamhthaigh ‘descendant of Éamhthach’, an adjective meaning ‘swift’.English : habitational name from Heapey in Lancashire, named in Old English as ‘(rose)hip hedge or enclosure’, hēope ‘hip’ + hege ‘hedge’ or gehæg ‘enclosure’.
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Irish
Irish : shortened form of McMeans.English : habitational names from East and West Meon in Hampshire, which take their names from the Meon river. The word is Celtic but of uncertain meaning, possibly ‘swift one’.nickname from Middle English mene ‘inferior in rank’, ‘of low degree’ (from Old English gemǣne), or from Middle English mene ‘moderate in behaviour’ (from Old French mëen, mean).
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German
German : nickname for a swift runner or a timorous person, from Middle High German, Middle Low German hase ‘hare’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Hase ‘hare’.English : from a Middle English nickname, Hase, from Old English hÄs ‘harsh, raucous, or hoarse voice’.Japanese : usually written with characters meaning ‘long valley’; habitational name from a place in Yamato (now Nara prefecture). Listed in the Shinsen shÅjiroku. Some bearers are descended from the Taira clan; they are found mainly in eastern Japan. Also pronounced Nagaya and Nagatani; the original pronunciation was Hatsuse, meaning ‘beginning of the strait’.
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Irish (Ulster)
Irish (Ulster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÃr, meaning ‘long-lasting’. In Ireland this name is found in County Armagh; it has also long been established in Scotland.Irish : Anglicized form of Ó hAichir ‘descendant of Aichear’, a personal name derived from the epithet aichear ‘fierce’, ‘sharp’. In Ireland this name is more commonly Anglicized as O’Hehir.English : nickname for a swift runner (possibly a speedy messenger) or a timorous person, from Middle English hare ‘hare’. However, the surname Ayer and its variants was sometimes recorded as Hare.English : topographic name from an Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’, ‘tumulus’.French : according to Morlet, an occupational name for a huntsman, from a medieval French call used to urge on the hounds, or, in the form Haré, from the past participle of harer ‘to excite, stir up (hounds in pursuit of a quarry)’.
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Anglo Saxon
Swift.
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Hindu
Swift as thought
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Tamil
Swift sioux
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Tamil
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Swift, Quick
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Hindu
Swift sioux
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English
English : local name for someone who lived in a small cottage or temporary dwelling, Middle English logge (Old French loge, of Germanic origin). The term was used in particular of a cabin erected by masons working on the site of a particular construction project, such as a church or cathedral, and so it was probably in many cases equivalent to an occupational name for a mason. Reaney suggests that one early form, atte Logge, might sometimes have denoted the warden of a masons’ lodge.Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), the influential U.S. senator from MA, was born in Boston, the only son of John Ellerton Lodge, a prosperous merchant and owner of swift clipper ships engaged in commerce with China, one of several Lodges who emigrated from England in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Tamil
Quick, Swift
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Tamil
Swift as thought
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Tamil
Swift
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Tamil
Swift, Wind
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v. i.
The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.
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To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
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Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.
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To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
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Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.
adv.
Swiftly; nimbly; quickly.
adv.
In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
n.
Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
a.
To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.
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Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.
v. i.
To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.
n.
The Indian antelope (Antilope bezoartica, / cervicapra), noted for its beauty and swiftness. It has long, spiral, divergent horns.
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Swift; rapid.
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Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.
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The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
v. i.
To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.
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The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.
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Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
adv.
Swiftly.
v. i.
To move hastily or swiftly.