köken: Reborrowed from Persian تیز (“fast”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *tēŕ- (“fast, quick”). Cognate with Kazakh, Kyrgyz тез (tez), Uzbek, Turkish tez (“quick”), etc.
go! (imperative indicator 2nd person singular) (plurals άντεστε (ánteste) or αντέτε (antéte)) · go on · c'mon, come on (requires promptness)
köken: Babiniotis sees it as an imperative from, stemming from άιντε (áinte) < *άιτε (*áite) < *άετε (*áete) (with deletion of -γ-) from Ancient Greek ἄγετε (ágete), imperative plural of the verb ἄγω (ágō, “I lead”). Others have it from Byzantine Greek άμετε (ámete) (plural of άμε (áme)) with syncope of unstressed -ε- and /mt/ > /nt/ > /nd/. The variation άιντε (áinte) seems to have a different…
köken: Attested since 1609 according to Nationalencyklopedins Ordbok, from Middle Low German fôrt (“away, further, forward”), which is used adverbially (forts) with the same meaning in Low German, from Middle Low German fort, from Old Saxon forth. Related to för (“fore”), före (“before”) and forsla (“transport, carry, haul”).