Meaning

noun a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent

verb come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

verb enter or assume a certain state or condition

originFrom Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to find; to acquire, attain, get, hold, receive”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to find; to hold; to seize; to take”). Cognates Cognate with Yola get (“to get”), Danish gide (“to care, like”), Faroese gita (“to be able”), Icelandic geta (“to be able; to beget, father; to achieve, obtain, to guess; to mention”),…

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