betake

lähteä

ryhtyä puhekieltä To beteach.
puhekieltä To take over to; take across (to); deliver.
puhekieltä To seize; lay hold of; take. (defdate)
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Peoples" Country'', Nebraska 2005, p. 194:

a rain-cloud ... had betaken a dusky brown color, and about its lower verge a fringe of fine straight lines of rain was suggested ....

I was glad of my arrival for I was wearied with the way, and yellow of face for weakness and want; but my plight was pitiable and I knew not whither to betake me.

(..) he mechanically rose, and sleepily wondering what could be in the wind, betook himself to the designated place (..)

They betook themselves to treaty and submission. — Burke.

The rest, in imitation, to like arms / Betook them. — Milton.