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Funny thing: "Hello" was actually not a common greeting until that point.
I've always been curious how people greeted each other before "hello". Did we just say "good day" and variations thereof?
Most English speakers actually used "wazzup" like those Budweiser commercials
Greetings, traveler.
Well met!
Have you ever heard of the high elves?
Are they the elves that say "hi"?
No, they are the elves that smoked all of your weed.
Greetings and salutations, pilgrim.
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!"
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.
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