Lovely Little Lexemes
Exploring the strange and wonderful English language, one word at a time.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Good-Bye
I heard the etymology of this word from a priest today, so I figured I would share:
It dates to the 1590's and comes from
godbwye
, which is a contraction of
God be with ye
.
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