köken: Literally, “like a fish in water”. Cognate with Occitan coma un peis dins l'aiga. Compare also the antonymous English idiom like a fish out of water.
fast; quick · spicy; hot · harsh; acrid; biting; sharp
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (twnd /tund/, “sharp, violent”), from Proto-Iranian *tund- (“to act violently”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tund-, from Proto-Indo-European *tu-n-d-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-.
köken: Reborrowed from Persian تیز (“fast”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *tēŕ- (“fast, quick”). Cognate with Kazakh, Kyrgyz тез (tez), Uzbek, Turkish tez (“quick”), etc.
köken: From Middle Dutch gouwe, gauwe (“quick, fast, hasty”), alteration of gâ, from Old Dutch gā, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden, quick”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Low German gau (“quick, fast”), German jäh (“sudden, abrupt”). More at gay.
quickly, without delay; often used when urging someone to hurry
eş: 얼른, 후딱
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄲᆞᆯ리〮 (Yale: spòllí), equivalent to modern 빠르— (ppareu-, “to be quick”) + -이 (-i, adverb-deriving suffix).
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”).
quickly, rapidly, promptly, fast · unexpectedly, out of the blue, abruptly, suddenly
köken: From Proto-Finnic *äkkidä, the partitive singular of *äkki. Cognates include Estonian äkki, Ingrian äkkii, Karelian äkkie, Veps äkkid and Votic äčči.
aile: yhtäkkiä
Nyt äkkiä tänne!
Tämä tuli kyllä vähän äkkiä, mutta totta kai minä suostun.