get

Meanings

To obtain; to acquire.
To receive.
To have.
To fetch, bring, take.
To become, or cause oneself to become.
To cause to become; to bring about.
To cause to do.
To cause to come or go or move.
To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
To begin (doing something or to do something).
To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
To be.
To become ill with or catch (a disease).
To catch out, trick successfully.
To perplex, stump.
To find as an answer.
To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
To hear completely; catch.
To getter.
To beget (of a father).
To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
To go, to leave; to scram.
To kill.
To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
To measure.

From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną (compare Old English ġietan, Old High German pigezzan, Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-.
Variant of git.
From Hebrew גֵּט.

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