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English

Etymology

beġietan.

Pronunciation

Verb

{{en-verb|begets|begetting|begot or archaic, begat|begotten}}

To cause; to produce.
To procreate; to father (rarely: to mother); to get with child.

Quotations

, Genesis 5:3
: And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Translations

Czech: plodit

: ילד
: valda, geta, geta af sér (1), fæða, eiga (2)
: cennan

References

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Beget \Be*get"\, v. t. [imp. Begot, (Archaic) Begat; p. p.
Begot, Begotten; p. pr. & vb. n. Begetting.] [OE.
bigiten, bigeten, to get, beget, AS. begitan to get; pref.
be- + gitan. See Get, v. t. ]
1. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; --
commonly said of the father.
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Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget.
--Milton.
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2. To get (with child.) [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
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Love is begot by fancy. --Granville.
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WordNet beget
v : make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father
children but don't recognize them" [syn: get, engender,
father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth]
[also: begotten, begot, begetting, begat]

Moby Dictionary
author , be fruitful , be productive , bear , birth , breed , breed true ,
bring about , bring forth , bring into being , bring to birth ,
bring to effect , bring to pass , call into being , cause , coin ,
conceive , concoct , contrive , cook up , copulate , create , crossbreed ,
design , develop , devise , discover , do , dream up , effect ,
effectuate , engender , establish , evolve , fabricate , father , found ,
frame , fructify , generate , gestate , get , give being to ,
give birth to , give occasion to , give origin to , give rise to ,
hatch , improvise , inaugurate , inbreed , institute , invent , make ,
make do with , make love , make up , mature , mint , mother , multiply ,
occasion , originate , outbreed , plan , procreate , produce ,
proliferate , propagate , pullulate , realize , reproduce ,
reproduce in kind , set afloat , set on foot , set up , sire , spawn ,
strike out , teem , think out , think up , work