Where does “sayonara” come from?
sayonara (English) comes from Japanese さようなら, from Japanese 左様ならば, from Japanese ならば, from Japanese ば, from Japanese は, from Old Japanese は.
sayonara (English): Goodbye, adieu; An utterance of sayonara, the...
Definitions
- Goodbye, adieu; An utterance of sayonara, the...
Ancestry of “sayonara”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | さようなら | a final expression of departure; farewell, so... |
| 2 | Japanese | 左様ならば | — |
| 3 | Japanese | ならば | if |
| 4 | Japanese | ば | In Modern Japanese, attaches to the kateikei, and... |
| 5 | Japanese | は | what about, where is; Inserted between two verbs... |
| 6 | Old Japanese | は | — |
Words derived from “sayonara”