While I don't always love 'denominalization' (if I that's the right word), the verb 'speed' is a common one, e.g., 'speed up'.

Every word we use was created at some point, often in the same way. There is nothing magical about the people and the words they created in 1824 that makes them better than us and words we create in 2024, except perhaps that the 1824 words we still use have stood the test of time.

Also, as far as I can tell, the verb form is as old as the noun form.