• ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I didn’t know that about ‘goodbye’! Words are fascinating, huh.

    I believe “hello” itself was more of an exclamation (like “hi”, in fact) and supposedly comes from the Dutch “hollo”. Some people in the UK still use it as such, in fact.

    • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Adios and adieu also both refer to god; I’m sure other Romance languages say goodbye similarly but I don’t know Italian or Romanian or whatever