köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (tyc /tēz/, “sharp”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-. Cognate with Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫎𐫏𐫋 (tēǰ, “sharp”), Northern Kurdish tîj, tûj (“sharp; hot, spicy”), Central Kurdish تیژ (tîj), تێژ (têj, “sharp, hot (peppery)”). Note Armenian թեժ (tʻež), an Iranian borrowing.
köken: Borrowed from French ferme (“firm”). First attested in 1665 Cognate with English firm (adjective). For the semantic development, cf. English fast.
handy, dexterous (of a person: skillful with one's hands) · handy, useful, practical, nifty (useful, easy to use, easy to get results with) · convenient, nifty, handy (making life easy)
çekim: karşılaştırma fürgébb · üstünlük legfürgébb
köken: From an otherwise unattested front-vowel stem variant of the same word family as for(dít) + -g (frequentative verb-forming suffix) + -e (obsolete present-participle suffix). For the -e ending, compare ferde, lenge.
agile, dexterous, deft, neat, skillful, precise (that which moves quickly, smoothly, precisely; which works quickly, smoothly, efficiently) · agile, dexterous, deft, neat, precise (carried out with speed, agility, neatness, precision) · able, resourceful, quick-witted, skillful (capable of using a situation to one's advantage; expressing such capacity)
çekim: karşılaştırma veiklāks · üstünlük visveiklākais
eş: knašs, nasks, ņiprs, vingrs, žigls
köken: Derived from the verb veikt (“to carry out, to accomplish”) (q.v.). This word varied its semantics rather strongly throughout time and space (meaning at times “circumspect, calm,” “modest, virtuous,” “successful,” etc.) Cognates include Lithuanian veiklùs (“active, diligent”), veikùs (“quick, agile; capable”).