- haste (n.)
- early 13c., from Old French haste "haste, urgency, hastiness" (12c., Modern French hâte), from Frankish *haifst "violence," from West Germanic *haifstiz (cf. Gothic haifsts "strife," Old English hæste "violent, vehement, impetuous"). To make haste is recorded by 1530s.
- haste (v.)
- late 13c., from Old French haster (Modern French hâter), from haste (see haste). Now largely superseded by hasten (1560s).