get – English noun declension

English noun forms of get

Noun: get
Singularget
Pluralgets; gittim; gitten

Sample Sentences

  • At the time when I am making these observations, one of his colts is the first favourite for the Derby; and it will be recollected, that a filly of his get won the Oaks in 1808. [1810, Thomas Hornby Morland, The genealogy of the English race horse, page 71:]
  • You must admit that the bastard get of Paul Atreides would be no more than juicy morsels for those two [tigers]. [1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune:]
  • ‘You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’ [1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 755:]
  • I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine. [2008, Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion, page 73:]

Nouns inflected like get

get,

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”).
2. Cognates
3. 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”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'geta', Faroese Nouns 'gita', Icelandic Nouns 'geta', Latin Nouns 'edera'.

Verbs referencing "get"

Latin Nouns hedera, Russian Nouns жуть.