'Take' is a Viking loan that displaced native 'niman' — which survives only in 'nimble' (quick to seize).
To reach for and hold something; to carry or move something from one place to another; to seize or capture.
From Middle English 'taken,' borrowed from Old Norse 'taka' (to take, seize, grasp), from Proto-Germanic *tēkōną or *takōną, of uncertain further origin — possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate or from PIE *deh₁g- ('to touch'). This Norse loanword replaced the native Old English 'niman' (to take), which survives today only in the word 'nimble.' The displacement of a core verb by a borrowed one