What is the origin of the word 'bye' ?
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Hi\nNo doubt more than one reader has wondered exactly how goodbye is derived from the phrase “God be with you.” To understand this, it is helpful to see earlier forms of the expression, such as God be wy you, god b'w'y, godbwye, god buy' ye, and good-b'wy. The first word of the expression is now good and not God, for good replaced God by analogy with such expressions as good day, perhaps after people no longer had a clear idea of the original sense of the expression. A letter of 1573 written by Gabriel Harvey contains the first recorded use of goodbye: “To requite your gallonde [gallon] of godbwyes, I regive you a pottle of howdyes,” recalling another contraction that is still used.\nregards\nrca
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its come from the old english word 'butter', which means to 'spread out' and the word 'fly' which means to 'fly'.
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It's believed to have been abreviated from Oll Korrect, used in Boston newspapers during the 1800's, as a deliberate misspelling of All Correct.\n\nApparently they liked using abbreviations apparently.
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According to Mencken's 'American Language' and the 'Thesaurus of American Slang' by Berry and Van den Bark, 'lam, lammister' and 'on the lam' -- all referring to hasty departure -- were common in thieves' slang before the start of this century. Mencken quotes a newspaper report on the origin of 'lam' which actually traces it indirectly back to Shakespeare's time -- 'Its origin should be obvious to anyone who runs over several colloquial phrases for leavetaking, such as 'beat it' and 'hit the trail'...The allusion in 'lam' is to 'beat,' and 'beat it' is Old English, meaning 'to leave.' During the period of George Ade's 'Fables in Slang' (1900), cabaret society delight in talking slang, and 'lam' was current. Like many other terms, it went under in the flood of new usages of those days, but was preserved in criminal slang. A quarter of a century later it reappeared.' The Sage of Baltimore goes on to quote a story from the 'New York Herald Tribune' in 1938 which reported that 'one of the oldest police officers in New York said that he had heard 'on the lam' thirty years ago." From the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1977, 1988).
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It's not a word in the English language.\n...or Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Korean, Japanese, or Spanish.\n\n\nAh, Persian.  Thanks!\n\nParande means "the flyer" - often "the bird."
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The closest would probably be B, however I have never heard this word said; I have read it in books published in the 1800s...I always assumed it meant "Hooray!" as in cheering.  Not a word anyone needs to know to exists in today's world!
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(U.S. & UK Commonwealth) an Italian (sometimes any Southern European), especially an immigrant; probably originated in the U.S., but later spread to other countries. Probably derives from the Neapolitan slang term guappo! (pretty/handsome one), often used by the first immigrants from Italy to address or call to each other. Popular etymology gives the origin as "WithOut Passport", although some believe the acronym derived from "WithOut Papers" or "Without Official Papers", suggesting illegal immigration. This folk etymology sometimes combines the term with "guinea" to form "Giny Wop," with Giny being an acronym for Going Into New York, hence "Going Into New York Without Official Papers".
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Origin: Greek \nMeaning : Stranger. \nGender: Female
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Latin root 'pend-' = hang\n+ Latin prefix 'de-' = on or about\n= depend = to 'hang on'\n+ English suffix (of French origin) - '-ence' = (generally) making a noun out of a verb\n+ Latin/French prefix 'in-' = 'opposite of' or 'not'
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It is used now in many places. In songs and everywhere. I think that this line came from a "tall dark handsome stranger".\n"tall dark handsome stranger" came from language\nlanguage came from man\nman came from God\nSo ultimately God made this line = "tall dark handsome stranger".
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It has been suggested that the word originates from the Spanish verb hablar, which means "to talk". When hablar is conjugated to the imperfect tense, it becomes hablaba, hablabas, hablabamos, hablabais, and hablaban.\n\nIt came into practice in the early 20th Century.
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Here's a website on word origins that has a few suggestions:\n\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/5/messages/97.html
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ex-is a prefix\n\nIt originates from the Latin 'ex' meaning: former,from out of, free from, without.\n\n(so ex-wife could actaully mean 'free from - wife') hehe...
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I am guessing that it is a phrasal verb- please cut using it (like cut it out=stop it-> stop using it ).\n\nOr literally: Cut it when/before being used.\n\nThat's till where my imagination can work.\nHope it helps.
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I had always thought the word was "mitre" but another spelling is "miter".  You see it spelled different ways in different places.  It actually comes from the Greek word "mitra", meaning "turban".  \n\nI hope this helps.
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This does not exist in an "english" dictionary.  Could the word derive from another language possiby and be translated/related to english?\n\nGreat source:    http://www.m-w.com/
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I think it was coined by Martin Lawrence, the same man who gave us "You go, Girl!"\n\nCave\n\np.s.---Just found this:\n\n"In the case of "don't go there," the earliest citation for the phrase in print in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from an interview with comedian Martin Lawrence in Entertainment Weekly back in February 1994. At the time the star of the highly-rated Fox sitcom "Martin," Lawrence took the opportunity to complain, oddly enough, that his material was being stolen by other Fox shows: \n\n"Something ain't right," Lawrence says, removing his sunglasses. ... "We started using the expressions 'You go, girl!' and 'Don't go there!' and no one in television was doing that. No one. Now a lot of Fox shows are using the same stuff and the same premises."