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English

get

/ɡɛt/
To obtain; to acquire.

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    Origin

    Etymology 1

    From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to find; to acquire, attain, get, hold, receive”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to find; to hold; to seize; to take”).

    Cognates

    Cognate with Yola get (“to get”), Danish gide (“to care, like”), Faroese gita (“to be able”), Icelandic geta (“to be able; to beget, father; to achieve, obtain, to guess; to mention”), Norwegian Nynorsk gjeta, gjete (“to guess; to mention”), Scanian gida (“to have the energy to, to feel up for”), gæda (“to guess”), Swedish gita, gitta (“to be able, to bring oneself to, to care”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bigitan, “to discover, find”); also Latin edera, hedera (“ivy”), praeda (“booty, pillage, plunder; prey; gain, profit”), prehendō, prēndō (“to grab, grasp, seize; to attain, reach”), Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō, “to comprise, contain, hold”), Albanian gjej (“to find”).

    Etymology 2

    Variant of git.

    Etymology 3

    From Hebrew גֵּט (gēṭ).

    From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Lineage

    • inheritedMiddle Englishgeten
      • borrowedOld Norsegeta
        • inheritedProto-Germanic*getaną “to find; to acquire, attain, get, hold, receive”
          • derivedProto-Indo-European*gʰed- “to find; to hold; to seize; to take”
    • derivedHebrewגֵּט
      • derivedAkkadian𒁍𒁕
        • borrowedSumerian𒁍𒁕
          • derivedSumerian𒁍

    Related: Yola get, Danish gide, Faroese gita, Icelandic geta, Norwegian Nynorsk gjeta, Scanian gida, Swedish gita, Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽, Latin edera, Ancient Greek χανδάνω, Albanian gjej

    Words built on it: get-out, get some, get-go, get right, get over on, got-up, come get some, get-nothing

    Meanings

    verb
    1. To obtain; to acquire.
    2. To receive.
    3. To have. See usage notes.
    4. To fetch, bring, take.
    5. To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
    6. To cause to become; to bring about.
    noun
    1. Offspring, especially illegitimate.
    2. Lineage.
    3. A difficult return or block of a shot.
    4. Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
    5. A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.

    Sources

    • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
    • Wiktionary: get