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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, Howdy is a contraction of "How do you do?", hence the somewhat rarer "Howdy do!", and Goodbye is a contraction of "God Be With You!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months 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