Where does “sayonara” come from?
sayonara (Spanish) comes from English sayonara, 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 (Spanish): flip-flop, thong Australia, jandal New Zealand
Definitions
- flip-flop, thong Australia, jandal New Zealand
Ancestry of “sayonara”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sayonara | Goodbye, adieu; An utterance of sayonara, the... |
| 2 | Japanese | さようなら | a final expression of departure; farewell, so... |
| 3 | Japanese | 左様ならば | — |
| 4 | Japanese | ならば | if |
| 5 | Japanese | ば | In Modern Japanese, attaches to the kateikei, and... |
| 6 | Japanese | は | what about, where is; Inserted between two verbs... |
| 7 | Old Japanese | は | — |