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(the literal Slovak translation of grüß Gott) is used as the traditional greeting of miners. An inscription of Zdar Boh! can be seen on many mine entrances, monuments or logos. In Romania, the greeting Doamne ajută, which means "God helps" or "God bless", is often used. On Romanian mine entrances the traditional salute Noroc bun!
It is a word of greeting or parting like the Italian ciao (which also comes from the slave meaning through Venetian s'ciavo). [1] The salutation is spelled servus in German, [2] Bavarian, Slovak, [3] Romanian [4] and Czech. [5] In Rusyn and Ukrainian it is spelled сервус, in the Cyrillic alphabet.
The greeting has several variations and minor uses. In Italian and Portuguese, for example, a doubled ciao ciao / tchau tchau means specifically "goodbye", whilst the tripled or quadrupled word (but said with short breaks between each one) means "Bye, I'm in a hurry!" [5] Pronounced with a long [aː], it means "Hello, I'm so glad to meet you ...
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]
"To your wishes" or "health". Old-fashioned: after the second sneeze, "to your loves", and after the third, "may they last forever". More archaically, the translation is "God bless you". Merci or Merci, que les tiennes durent toujours (old-fashioned) after the second sneeze "Thank you" or "Thanks, may yours last forever" after the second sneeze
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...
A calque / k æ l k / or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: "verbum pro verbo") translation. This list contains examples of calques in various languages.
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