hello; hullo; good day; good afternoon (greeting said when meeting or acknowledging someone)
eş: Tag, Tagchen
zıt: auf Wiederschauen, auf Wiedersehen, auf Wiedertreffen, mach's gut, tschüss
köken: Short for ich wünsche einen guten Tag! (“I wish [you] a good day!”), hence the accusative form of the adjective. Compare Yiddish אַ גוטן טאָג (a gutn tog).
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic привѣтъ (privětŭ, “greeting; appeal; dictum, word; intention, will”), from Proto-Slavic *privětъ. Compare Ukrainian приві́т (pryvít) and Belarusian прыве́т (pryvjét).
köken: Originally a compound of 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 早く (hayaku, “early”, adverb), from adjective 早い (hayai, “early”). Modern Japanese -i adjectives formerly ended in -ki for the attributive form. This medial /k/ dropped out during the Muromachi period, both for the attributive form (-ki becoming -i) and for the adverbial form (-ku becoming -u). However, the adverbial form reverted back to -ku…
köken: Blend of ciao + hello, popularised by a greeting used by Inaba Meguru (因幡 めぐる) in the game Sabbat of the Witch by YUZUSOFT, released 27th February 2015 (21st July 2023 as for the Chinese version).
hello (greeting used when answering the telephone; call for response if it is not clear if anyone is present or listening; also used sarcastically) · come on (used to express disapproval of or exasperation for what someone has said or done)
hail, hello, farewell, greetings! (a formal expression of greeting)
köken: Borrowed with an unspelled /h/ from Punic [script needed] (ḥawe, “live!”, 2sg. imp.), cognate to Hebrew חוה (“Chava, the biblical Eve”), and as avō from Punic [script needed] (ḥawū, 2pl. imp.), from Semitic root ḥ-w-y (live). The form might have been contaminated by Etymology 2, especially as the latter one's long vowel also ended up short via iambic shortening; this would explain the reluctance…