beget

Meaning

1. To father; to sire; to produce (a child).
2. To cause; to produce.
3. To bring forth.
4. To happen to; befall.

Synonyms

generate

sire

produce

engender

bring forth

procreate

father

👨‍👦

bear

🐻

give birth

cause

breed

reproduce

give birth to

originate

born

🐣

conceive

create

get

lay

mother

👩‍🍼

weave

make a bow

fetch

find out

gender

challenge

whelp

calve

call out

give rise

invent

yield

life

litter

live

living

call forth

alive

bring on

bring about

provoke

be born

bear out

spawn

genserate

deliver

devise

defy

evoke

dare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/biˈɡɛt/

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”).