Etymology

A variant of ME forʒeten (< OE Angl forgetan ‘to forget’) with /ɡ/ attributable to the influence of gete, as there is no such prefixed form in ON.

PGmc Ancestor

*getan- 

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

(ONP )

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

OE Cognate

Angl forgetan

Phonological and morphological markers

absence of palatalization of */ɡ/

Summary category

A1*c

Attestation

Except in some N and E texts, <g> variants are relatively infrequent until the later 14c, but the norm in Chaucer and found increasingly thereafter.  On the distribution of <ʒ> and forms of this word in the Gaw-poet, see Putter and Stokes 2000: 81.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Gaw 2031; WA 3276

Bibliography

MED foryēten (v.) , OED forget (v.) , HTOED , Dance forgat, Bj. 153, AEW gietan