[ginnan], st. v., original meaning, to be open, ready; in

on-ginnan, to begin, to undertake: pret. ôð þät ân ongan fyrene fremman feónd on helle, [100]; secg eft ongan sîð Beówulfes snyttrum styrian, [872]; þâ þät sweord ongan ... wanian, the sword began to diminish, [1606]; Higelâc ongan sînne geseldan ... fägre fricgean, began with propriety to question his companion, [1984], etc.; ongon, [2791]; pret. pl. nô her cûðlîcor cuman ongunnon lindhäbbende, no shield-bearing men e'er undertook more openly to come hither, [244]; pret. part. häbbe ic mærða fela ongunnen on geogoðe, have in my youth undertaken many deeds of renown, [409].

[gist]. See [gäst].

[gistran], adv., yesterday: gystran niht, yesterday night, [1335].

[git], pron., ye two, dual of [þu], [508], [512], [513], etc.

[git, gyt], adv., yet; then still, [536], [1128], [1165], [2142]; hitherto, [957]; næfre git, never yet, [583]; still, [945], [1059], [1135]; once more, [2513]; moreover, [47], [1051], [1867].

[gitan] (original meaning, to take hold of, to seize, to attain), in

be-gitan, w. acc., to grasp, to seize, to reach: pret. sg. begeat, [1147], [2231]; þâ hine wîg beget, when war seized him, came upon him, [2873]; similarly, begeat, [1069]; pret. pl. hit ær on þe gôde be-geâton, good men received it formerly from thee, [2250]; subj. sg. for pl. þät wäs Hrôðgâre hreówa tornost þâra þe leódfruman lange begeâte, the bitterest of the troubles that for a long time had befallen the people's chief, [2131].

for-gitan, w. acc., to forget: pres. sg. III. he þâ forðgesceaft forgyteð and forgýmeð, [1752].

an-gitan, on-gitan, w. acc.: 1) to take hold of, to grasp: imp. sg. gumcyste ongit, lay hold of manly virtue, of what becomes the man, [1724]; pret. sg. þe hine se brôga angeat, whom terror seized, [1292].—2) to grasp intellectually, to comprehend, to perceive, to distinguish, to behold: pres. subj. I. þät ic ærwelan ... ongite, that I may behold the ancient wealth (the treasures of the drake's cave), [2749]; inf. säl timbred ... ongytan, [308], [1497]; Geáta clifu ongitan, [1912]; pret. sg. fyren-þearfe ongeat, had perceived their distress from hostile snares, [14]; ongeat ... grund-wyrgenne, beheld the she-wolf of the bottom, [1519]; pret. pl. bearhtm ongeâton, gûðhorn galan, perceived the noise, (heard) the battle-trumpet sound, [1432]; syððan hie Hygelâces horn and býman gealdor ongeâton, [2945].