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gitta.

to bring oneself to, to care, to have strength or power enough, to be able to

5 characters2 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

verb/²jɪta/
  1. to bring oneself to, to care, to have strength or power enough, to be able to

  2. got to, have to, to must (Dialectal: in Norrländska mål, Northern dialects, mostly used in past tense gatt, known since 1749)

Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish gita (“succeed, accomplish, bring”), a later form of Old Swedish gæta (“tell, guess, get hold of”), from Old Norse geta (“to get, guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to acquire, get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“take, seize”). Related to Danish gide (“to be bothered to”) and Icelandic geta (“to be able to”) and also to Swedish förgäta, gissa, gåta, gäta.

verb/²ɡɪta/
  1. to leave; take off, clear out, scram.

    slang
Where this word comes from

From Turkish gitmek, from Ottoman Turkish كتمك (gitmek), from Proto-Turkic *kē(y)t- (“to go (away)”).

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