got

Clipping of English Gothic.

got

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Gothic.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Gothic terms

• UK
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɒt/
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ɡɔt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• US
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑt/
  • (African-American) IPA^(key): /ɡaʔ/

  • Audio (US):

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  • (New England, Boston) IPA^(key): /ɡʌt/, /ɡɒt/
• Australia / New Zealand
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɡɔt/

  • Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

got (third-person singular simple present got or (nonstandard) gots, no present participle, simple past (by suppletion) had, no past participle)

1. Expressing obligation; used with have.

   I can’t go out tonight: I’ve got to study for my exams.

2. (colloquial, with to) Must; have/has (to).

   I got to go study.

   • 1971, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, in Tapestry, Ode Records:

     We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!

3. (colloquial, regional or nonstandard) Have/has.

   They got a new car.

   He got a lot of nerve.

got

1. simple past of get

   We got the last bus home.

2. past participle of get

   By that time we’d got very cold.

   I’ve got two children.

   How many children have you got?

• (expressing obligation): "Got" is a filler word in the following example with no obvious grammatical or semantic function: "I've got to study for my exams" has the same meaning as "I have to study for my exams". It is often stressed in speech: "You've just got to see this."
• (have): In nonstandard speech, "got" may be reinterpreted as a regular present tense, so that the form gots appears in the third-person singular present, e.g. She gots a red bike.
• (past participle of get): The second sentence literally means "At some time in the past I got (obtained) two children", but in "have got" constructions like this, where "got" is used in the sense of "obtained", the sense of obtaining is lost, becoming merely one of possessing, and the sentence is in effect just a more colloquial way of saying "I have two children". Similarly, the third sentence is just a more colloquial way of saying "How many children do you have?"
• (past participle of get): The American and archaic British usage of the verb conjugates as get-got-gotten or as get-got-got depending on the meaning (see Usage Notes on "get" for details), whereas the modern British usage of the verb has mostly lost this distinction and conjugates as get-got-got in most cases.

• (must, have (to), have got to): gotta (informal)

Analogous to Chinese 有, such as Hokkien 有 (ū), Cantonese 有 (jau⁵), Mandarin 有 (yǒu). Sense 1 is also comparable to Malay ada.

got (invariable)

2. (Singlish, Manglish) Have; there is (indicates possession or existence).

   Got problem is it?

   Got ants over here.

   • 1999, Alfian Sa'at, Corridor, Singapore: SNP Editions, →OCLC, page 122:

     “Got lighter or not?”

   • 2010, Haresh Sharma, Those Who Can't, Teach, Epigram Books, Act II, scene iv:

     She sure got a lot of costume change, make-up, wig long long…

   • 2022, Daren Shiau, chapter VIII, in Heartland, Ethos Books, →ISBN:

     “There is no such thing as president of the world. But there is one king of the world. I am king of the world. Bigger than you!”
     “Where got king, one? Who say so? You play cheat.”
     “My mother say got. You don’t believe me you ask her.”

4. (Singlish, auxiliary) Marks the completive or experiential aspect.

   Synonym: (Singlish, experiential aspect only) ever

   You got shower? ― Have you showered?

   I got ski. ― I went skiing.

   I got ski before. ― I have skied before.

   • 2010 August 22, Fiona Chan, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 13:

     You got send [e-mail] meh? I never receive leh.

   • 2021, Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier, Epigram Books, →ISBN:

     I got find it a bit weird lah, to be honest with you—it’s just a small cup!

6. (Singlish, auxiliary) Used as a marker of realis modality.

   I got go Taiwan next year. ― I’m already/actually going to Taiwan next year.

8. (Singlish, auxiliary) Used to emphasize that an action has been done.

   I got tell them just now.

10. (Singlish, auxiliary) Marks the habitual aspect in the present or past tense.

    I got cook meals for them. ― I cook meals for them; I would cook meals for them (now and then or regularly).

    You got play badminton? ― Do you play badminton?

• where got

• Nomoto, Hiroki; Lee, Nala Huiying (2012), “Realis, factuality and derived-level statives: Perspectives from the analysis of Singlish got”, in Cahiers Chronos, volume 25, →ISSN, pages 219-239

• GTO, OTG, TGO, tog

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɔt]

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• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *gottus, from Latin guttus. Cognate with Ladin got, Venetan goto, Italian gotto.

got m (plural gots)

1. glass (drinking glass)

   Synonyms: tassó, vas

Inherited from Latin Gothus.

got m (plural gots, feminine goda, feminine plural godes)

1. Goth

• gòtic (“Gothic”)

• ostrogot
• visigot

• “got”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

got

1. nominative plural of go

got (comparative bȩter or bäter)

1. alternative spelling of goot

• god

From Dutch goot (“gutter”), from Middle Dutch gōte, from Old Dutch *gota, from Proto-Germanic *gutō.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɔt]
• Hyphenation: got

got

1. gutter (a prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water)

   Synonyms: apuran, selokan, comberan, talang

• “got”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

got

1. romanization of ꦒꦺꦴꦠ꧀

From Vulgar Latin *gottus, from Latin guttus. Cognate with Catalan got, Venetan goto, Italian gotto.

got m (plural goc)

1. (Gherdëina, Badiot) glass (drinking glass)

   Bever n got de lat.

   To drink a glass of milk.

• taza (Fascian)

From Old Dutch got, from Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.

got m

1. god
2. the Christian God

• god

• Dutch: god, God
  • Afrikaans: god, God
• Limburgish: gód, Gód

• “got”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “god”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page god

From Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits.

• gat, gathe, goth
• goet, gote, gothe, goot (Late Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔːt/
• IPA^(key): /ɡaːt/ (Northern)

got (plural gotes or get)

1. goat (especially a female)
2. The meat or flesh of goats
3. A chamois or antelope
4. A lustful individual; lust as a concept
5. (astrology) Capricorn

• English: goat (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: gait, gayt
• Yola: geearth, geearte, gurth

• “gōt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.

got

1. alternative form of gutte

Inherited from Old High German got, from Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós, from *ǵʰew- + *-tós.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈɡot/

got m

1. god; deity

• Alemannic German: Gott
• Bavarian:
  • Cimbrian: Gott
  • Mòcheno: Gott
• Central Franconian: Jott
  • Hunsrik: Gott
  • Luxembourgish: Gott
• German: Gott
• Low German:
  • German Low German:
    • Plautdietsch: Gott
• Rhine Franconian:
  • Pennsylvania German: Gott
• Yiddish: גאָט (got)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “got”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "got" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

From Old Saxon gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

• Stem vowel: ô¹
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /ɣoːt/

gôt (comparative bēter, superlative best)

1. good

• Low German: god

From Old Saxon god, from Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔt/

got m (genitive godes or gades, plural gode or gade)

1. god

From Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.

got m

1. god

• Middle Dutch: got
  • Dutch: god, God
    • Afrikaans: god, God
  • Limburgish: gód, Gód

• “got”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• cot

From Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą. Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English god, Old Dutch got, Old Norse guð, Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ).

got m

1. god

• fiurgot
• fuotargot
• gotmann
• irmingot

• Middle High German: got
  • Alemannic German: Gott
  • Bavarian:
    • Cimbrian: Gott
    • Mòcheno: Gott
  • Central Franconian: Jott
    • Hunsrik: Gott
    • Luxembourgish: Gott
  • German: Gott
  • Low German:
    • German Low German:
      • Plautdietsch: Gott
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Pennsylvania German: Gott
  • Yiddish: גאָט (got)

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “got”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), 6th edition

Back-formation from gotyk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Syllabification: got
• Homophone: Got

got m pers (female equivalent gotka)

1. (music) goth (person who is part of the goth subculture)

• got in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• got in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French Goth, from Latin Gothus.

got m (plural goți)

1. Goth

Inherited from Old Swedish gotar. Doublet of gute. Compare origin of göt.

got c

1. (historical) Goth (member of the ancient group of peoples)

• västgot
• östgot

• got in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• got in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔt/

got

1. soft mutation of cot

got

1. alternative form of godth
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Jaane got leigheen; shoo pleast aam all, fowe?.

     Joan set them a laughing, she pleased them all, how?

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 90

From Proto-Tai *koːtᴰ (“to hug; to embrace”). Cognate with Thai กอด (gɔ̀ɔt), Lao ກອດ (kǭt), Shan ၵွတ်ႇ (kàut).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /koːt˧˥/
• Tone numbers: got⁷
• Hyphenation: got

got (1957–1982 spelling got)

1. to hug; to embrace.