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Re:Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx by xdennis on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:09PM (#29988998)
Many indo-european languages use something like "see you again" in their goodbyes. Specifically, notice the V and D from the Proto-Indo-European root "weyd-"[1] meaning "to see":

* arriVeDerci (Italian)

* auf WieDersehen (German)

* ¡hasta la Vista! (Spanish)

* do WiDzenia (Polish)

* do sViDaniya (Russian)

* la reVeDere (Romanian, (because I'm Romanian and it seems like an important language to mention))

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

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Re:Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx by torstenvl on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:21PM (#29989099)
wieder means "again" and has nothing to do with sight.

sehen means "to see" and does not have your PIE root.

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