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beget

verb
/biˈɡɛt/UK

Etymology

From Middle English begeten [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Old English beġietan (“to get”), from Proto-Germanic *bigetaną (“to find, seize”), equivalent to be- + get. Cognate with Old Saxon bigetan (“to find, seize”), Old High German bigezan (“to gain, achieve, win, procure”).

  1. derived from *bigetaną✻
  2. derived from beġietan
  3. inherited from begeten

Definitions

  1. To produce or bring forth (a child)

    To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.

    • The King intends to beget a child within the next five years.
    • ¶ And Adam liued an hundred and thirtie yeeres, and begate a ſonne in his owne likeneſſe, after his image; and called his name Seth.
    • This ogress too was begotten of the blood of Cain, whose brood had been doomed forever to the icy floods and freezing waters of the earth.

  2. To cause

    To cause; to produce; to bring forth.

    • Wealth begets wealth; poverty begets poverty.
    • How one’s thoughts will travel! and how quickly our wishes beget them!
    • In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.

  3. To get or obtain.

    • If there bee neuer a Seruant-monſter i' the Fayre, who can helpe it, he ſayes ; nor a neſt of Antiques ? Hee is loth to make Nature afraid in his Playes, like thoſe that beget Tales, Tempeſts, and ſuch like Drolleries, […]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To happen to

      To happen to; befall.

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Derived

begetter, begetting, begotten, lies beget more lies, misbeget, misbegot, rebeget, unbeget, unbegot

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at beget. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01beget02father03remote04inaccessible05reach06thrust07generated08generate

A definitional loop anchored at beget. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at beget

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA