k̂ēi-gh-

    k̂ēi-gh-

    English meaning: quick, hasty

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schnell, heftig”

    Material: O.Ind. śīghrá- “rash, hasty, quick, fast”; O.E. hīgian “tendere, festinare, niti”, Eng. hie “hurry”, geminated Nor. hikka ‘schluchzen”, O.S. hikka “pant, gasp, den Schluckauf have” (onomatopoeic words?); Russ. sigátь, signútь ‘spring”, wRuss. sigáć, signuć ‘schreiten, big, giant Schritte make”;wherefore also Russ. sig “a kind of fish”, as Salm to saliō, so that Lith. sūkis etc. and O.N. sīkr maybe from dem Russ. borrowed are.

    References: WP. I 363, Wissmann nom. postverb. 174, Specht IE Decl. 249;

    See also: belongs to k̂ēi-bh-, see above.