Etymology Word of the Week – As some of you know, in addition to working in the Admissions Office, I also teach Latin at Saint Ignatius and am something of a "word nerd." Thus, each week, I’ll sneak a vocabulary word (sometimes derived from Latin, sometimes not) into the e-blast. Here then is this week’s edition of the Etymology Word of the Week.
Sayonara
Definition: “farewell, goodbye; literally, if it must be that way.”
Origin/Derivation: From the Japanese words sayo meaning “that way” and nara meaning “if”.
Related Words/Phrases: other words that come to us from Japanese include origami (“folding paper”), banzai (“may you live 10,000 years”), kamikaze (“divine wind”), teriyaki (“shiny/glossy roast”), rickshaw (actually jinrikisha - “man-powered carriage”), tsunami (“harbor waves”), hara-kiri (“belly-cutting”), ju jitsu (“the soft art”), karaoke (“empty orchestra”), bushido (“way of the warrior”)
(All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com)
“Old Saw” of the Week:
See if you can “complete the phrase” of this time-worn (but true!) adage:
“Strike while..”
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...the iron is hot”