- begotten (adj.)
[begotten 词源字典] - late 14c., past participle adjective from beget.[begotten etymology, begotten origin, 英语词源]
- forgotten (adj.)
- early 15c., past participle adjective from forget.
- gotta (v.)
- 1885, attempt to represent the casual pronunciation of got to.
- gotten
- a past participle form of get, showing vestiges of the Old English form of the verb. With adverbs, "obtained or acquired" (in some specified manner) from mid-14c.
- Gotterdammerung (n.)
- 1909 in the figurative sense of "complete overthrow" of something; from German Götterdämmerung (18c.), literally "twilight of the gods," from genitive plural of Gott "god" (see god) + Dämmerung "dusk, twilight," from PIE root *teme- "dark" (see temerity). Used by Wagner as the title of the last opera in the Ring cycle. It translates Old Norse ragna rok "the doom or destruction of the gods, the last day, world's end." Used by Wagner as the title of the last opera in the Ring cycle.
- misbegotten (adj.)
- "bastard, illegitimate," 1550s, past participle adjective from obsolete misbeget (c. 1300); see mis- (1) + beget.
- unbegotten (adj.)
- 1530s, from un- (1) "not" + begotten.
- unforgotten (adj.)
- 1670s, from un- (1) "not" + forgotten. Similar formation in German unvergessen.
- mein Gott
- "Frequently in representations of German speech: = my God", Late 18th century; earliest use found in John Wolcot (d. 1819), poet and satirist. From German mein Gott from mein + Gott.
