geta

US: (get′ə; Japn. ge′tä)

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ge•ta  (get′ə; Japn. ge′tä), n., pl. -ta, -tas. 

1. Clothing a traditional Japanese wooden clog that is worn outdoors, with a thong that passes between the first two toes and with two transverse supports on the bottom of the sole.

• Middle Chinese, equivalent. to Chinese xià below) + Japanese (i)ta board
• Japanese, perh. by ellipsis from shita-geta, equivalent. to shita below, under + -geta, combining form of keta slat, lath; or ge (
• 1880–85