speed

Examples: "I like to speed every day." "Can you speed this for me?" "Let's speed together."

Middle English {it}sped, speede, spede{/it} "luck, fortune, good fortune, success, assistance, benefit, rate of motion or progress," going back to Old English {it}spēd{/it} "luck, success, riches, opportunity, power," {it}spēdum{/it} (dative plural used adverbially) "swiftly," going back to West Germanic {it}*spōdi-{/it} (whence also Old Saxon {it}spōd{/it} "success, advantage," Middle Dutch {it}spoed{/it} "prosperity, progress, haste," Old High German {it}spuot{/it} "quickness, velocity"), derivative with the abstract noun suffix {it}-ti-{/it} from the base of {it}*spōan-{/it} "to succeed" (whence Old English {it}spōwan{/it} "to succeed, thrive" [Class VII strong verb], Middle Dutch {it}spoen{/it} "to strive," Old High German {it}spuoen{/it} "to succeed"), going back to an o-grade derivative of the Indo-European verbal base {it}*speh{inf}1{/inf}-{/it} "thrive, prosper," whence also Old Church Slavic {it}spějǫ, spěti{/it} "to have success," Lithuanian {it}spė́ju, spė́ti{/it} "to manage (to do something)," Sanskrit {it}sphā́yate{/it} "(s/he) grows fat, increases," Hittite {it}išpāi{/it} "(s/he) gets full, is satiated"; as nominal derivatives Latin {it}spēs{/it} "hope" (< {it}*speh{inf}1{/inf}-{/it}), Latin {it}prosperus{/it} "agreeable to one's wishes, successful, prosperous," Old Russian {it}sporŭ{/it} "abundant," Sanskrit {it}sphiráḥ{/it} "fat" (< {it}*sph{inf}1{/inf}-ró-{/it})