Etymograph

English

gett

Gett comes from Scots gate ‘street, way, road, path’, and goes back to Old Norse gata.

  1. Old Norsec. 800–1350gata1
  2. Scotsc. 1450–presentgate2as gaet‘street, way, road, path’
  3. Englishtodaygett2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Scots gate
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English gett

Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Old Norsec. 800–1350gataWiktionary, Scots gate
  2. Scotsc. 1450–presentgateWiktionary, English gettas gaet‘street, way, road, path’
  3. EnglishtodaygettWiktionary, English gett

Linked words

through Old Norse gata

gate, gait

Another origin of gett

  1. Sumerianc. 3100–1800 BCEgid₂transliteratedcuneiform gid₂, a transliteration; the original signs are in Wiktionary‘to drag, to draw up a document’uncertain
  2. Sumerianc. 3100–1800 BCEgid₂-datransliteratedcuneiform gid₂-da, a transliteration; the original signs are in Wiktionary‘length’uncertain
  3. Akkadianc. 2500–100 BCEgíddatransliteratedcuneiform gídda, a transliteration; the original signs are in Wiktionary‘document or deed written on parchment’uncertain
  4. Hebrew1880s–presentגֵּטgēṭ‘a get, a document effecting the divorce of a wife from her husband’
  5. Englishtodaygett

Today it means

noun A nasty person.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “gett”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Scots gate. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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