begetteth

Brings into being

Begetteth is an archaic third-person singular form of beget, meaning to father or bring into existence.

The -eth ending marks biblical and early modern English: And Adam begetteth a son in his own likeness.

The word appears almost exclusively in religious texts and deliberate archaisms.

procreation

sire

Male animal parent

progeny · descendants · issue · seed · heir · lineage · spawn · conceive · engender · propagate

biblical

Genesis

First biblical book

Jacob · genealogy · lineage · descendants · covenant · scripture · testament · prophets · begat · sire

causation

engender

Cause to arise

create · cause · induce · provoke · occasion · bring about · give rise to · effect · originate · instigate

archaic

thee

Second-person object, antiquated

  • thouArchaic second-person pronoun
  • hathArchaic possessive verb
  • dothArchaic third-person singular

wherefore · hitherto · verily · forsooth · whilst · whence · thine · ye · yea · nay

Opposites
creation/generation

begettethslayeth

Kills, old English

killeth · destroyeth · endeth · terminates · destroys

linguistic register

begettethbegets

Produces or causes

fathers · sires · generates · produces · procreates

causal role

begettethbeareth

Archaic form of carries

conceives · bears

Family

begetter, begetters

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