English
get-go
From get + go.
Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- ‘to take, seize’
Proto-Germanic *getaną ‘to find; to acquire, get’
Old Norse geta ‘to get’
Middle English geten ‘to get’
English get
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- ‘to leave’
Proto-Germanic *gāną ‘to go’
Proto-West Germanic *gān ‘to go’
Old English gān ‘to go’
Middle English gon
English go
The story
First use appears in 1960 as part of the phrase from the get-go in the publication Baltimore Afro-American.
Today it means
noun The beginning.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / get-go