diff --git a/src/core/instance/render-helpers/resolve-filter.js b/src/core/instance/render-helpers/resolve-filter.js
index 08a81e1495d..6f11f59e234 100644
--- a/src/core/instance/render-helpers/resolve-filter.js
+++ b/src/core/instance/render-helpers/resolve-filter.js
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ import { identity, resolveAsset } from 'core/util/index'
  * Runtime helper for resolving filters
  */
 export function resolveFilter (id: string): Function {
-  return resolveAsset(this.$options, 'filters', id, true) || identity
+  return resolveAsset(this, 'filters', id, true) || identity
 }
diff --git a/src/core/util/options.js b/src/core/util/options.js
index 5f0d10d3361..c9447976252 100644
--- a/src/core/util/options.js
+++ b/src/core/util/options.js
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ import {
 import {
   extend,
   hasOwn,
-  camelize,
   toRawType,
+  camelize,
   capitalize,
+  identifierSpellings,
   isBuiltInTag,
   isPlainObject
 } from 'shared/util'
@@ -410,7 +411,7 @@ export function mergeOptions (
  * to assets defined in its ancestor chain.
  */
 export function resolveAsset (
-  options: Object,
+  context: Component,
   type: string,
   id: string,
   warnMissing?: boolean
@@ -419,6 +420,7 @@ export function resolveAsset (
   if (typeof id !== 'string') {
     return
   }
+  const options = context.$options
   const assets = options[type]
   // check local registration variations first
   if (hasOwn(assets, id)) return assets[id]
@@ -427,7 +429,13 @@ export function resolveAsset (
   const PascalCaseId = capitalize(camelizedId)
   if (hasOwn(assets, PascalCaseId)) return assets[PascalCaseId]
   // fallback to prototype chain
-  const res = assets[id] || assets[camelizedId] || assets[PascalCaseId]
+  let res = assets[id] || assets[camelizedId] || assets[PascalCaseId]
+  if (!res) {
+    const getAsset = options['get' + capitalize(type.slice(0, -1))]
+    if (getAsset instanceof Function) {
+      res = getAsset.call(context, id, identifierSpellings(id))
+    }
+  }
   if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' && warnMissing && !res) {
     warn(
       'Failed to resolve ' + type.slice(0, -1) + ': ' + id,
diff --git a/src/core/vdom/create-element.js b/src/core/vdom/create-element.js
index c5cde2c6424..4c1ad107d3a 100644
--- a/src/core/vdom/create-element.js
+++ b/src/core/vdom/create-element.js
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ export function _createElement (
         config.parsePlatformTagName(tag), data, children,
         undefined, undefined, context
       )
-    } else if (isDef(Ctor = resolveAsset(context.$options, 'components', tag))) {
+    } else if (isDef(Ctor = resolveAsset(context, 'components', tag))) {
       // component
       vnode = createComponent(Ctor, data, context, children, tag)
     } else {
diff --git a/src/core/vdom/modules/directives.js b/src/core/vdom/modules/directives.js
index 639982fab59..0fddcfa60b3 100644
--- a/src/core/vdom/modules/directives.js
+++ b/src/core/vdom/modules/directives.js
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ function normalizeDirectives (
       dir.modifiers = emptyModifiers
     }
     res[getRawDirName(dir)] = dir
-    dir.def = resolveAsset(vm.$options, 'directives', dir.name, true)
+    dir.def = resolveAsset(vm, 'directives', dir.name, true)
   }
   // $flow-disable-line
   return res
diff --git a/src/shared/util.js b/src/shared/util.js
index e4884734326..ab783365ab3 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.js
+++ b/src/shared/util.js
@@ -173,6 +173,20 @@ export const hyphenate = cached((str: string): string => {
   return str.replace(hyphenateRE, '-$1').toLowerCase()
 })
 
+/**
+ * Get all variations of a identifier spelling.
+ */
+export const identifierSpellings = cached((str: string): Object => {
+  const camelized = camelize(str)
+  return {
+    raw: str,
+    hyphenated: hyphenate(str),
+    camelized: camelized,
+    PascalCase: capitalize(camelized),
+    toString: () => str
+  }
+})
+
 /**
  * Simple bind polyfill for environments that do not support it... e.g.
  * PhantomJS 1.x. Technically we don't need this anymore since native bind is