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单词 stay well
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stay well
South African. stay well: used as an expression of farewell or to express good wishes when parting; cf. go well at go v. Phrases 2j. [After similar expressions in several Bantu languages of South Africa; e.g. compare Zulu sala kahle (also with prefixed pronoun usale kahle you stay well), (to a group) salani kahle ( < imperative forms of -sala to stay + kahle well) and also the similarly-formed Southern Sotho sala hantle, Northern Sotho sala pila.]
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1948 A. Paton Cry, Beloved Country 17 Go well, my child. Stay well, umfundisi. Stay well, mother. Go well, my child.
1961 H. Stanton Go well stay Well 5 ‘Go well.’ ‘Stay well.’ Sesuto: ‘Tsamea pila.’ ‘Sala pila.’ These words constitute the customary expressions of good-will when African friends are parting.
1983 N.S. Ndebele Fools 265 The boy..curtsied when I placed the orange in his hands ‘Stay well,’ he said as he walked out.
2003 L. DeSoto Blade of Grass (2004) xxxvii. 222 Bodule tucks his hat under his arm and cups both hands to receive his wages. ‘Usale kahle, Missus. Stay well’. ‘Go well, Bodule’.
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