bego

Meanings

Noun

• That which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance.

Verb

• To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
• To clothe, dress.
• To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.
• To go away, to disappear.

Origin

• From Middle English begon, from Old English begān ("to go over, traverse, get to, come by, fall into, go to, visit, care for, cultivate, inhabit, occupy, surround, beset, overrun, practice, do, engage in, perform, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess"), from Proto-Germanic *bi + *gāną, corresponding to be- + go. Cognate with Dutch begaan, German begehen, Danish begå.
• , originally an imperative but now an interjection, construed as a past participle.