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According to the "All Experts" website (refer to the link, below):

"The tennis expression 'let', [in] the sense of interference with the ball in tennis and similar games, is first recorded in 1871 . . . The usage stems from the Old Saxon word 'lettian' meaning to hinder. The Middle Dutch 'letten' and the Old High German 'lezzen' meaning to delay or hurt all derived from the Proto-Germanic word 'laet' meaning late."

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