goeden dag, phrase

Forms:
goe dag, goeddagShow more Also goe dag, goeddag, goen daag.
Origin:
DutchShow more Dutch, goeden (attributive form of goed) good + dag day.
obs.
dag.
1802 Truter & Somerville in G.M. Theal Rec. of Cape Col. (1899) IV. 386We left Litakoe at 8 o’clock,..followed by many hundreds, who bade us adieu in pronouncing in bad Dutch Goe Dag Heeren.
1829 C. Rose Four Yrs in Sn Afr. 82A Kaffer, rising from the group,..held out his hand, and repeated the salutation of good-will — Goedendag.
1837 ‘N. Polson’ Subaltern’s Sick Leave 101Traveller — ‘Goeden dag, Mynheer’ (‘Good day, Sir’).
1861 P.B. Borcherds Auto-Biog. Mem. 86Hundreds followed us and we heard them calling out in broken Dutch, ‘goeddag, goeddag, Heeren.’
1871 W.G. Atherstone in A.M.L. Robinson Sel. Articles from Cape Monthly Mag. (1978) 95‘Daars hy!’ (‘There he is!’) said he (by way of a welcome and the conventional ‘goen daag’,) with a knowing half wink.
1877 R.M. Ballantyne Settler & Savage 88Then the Dutchman said ‘goeden-dag,’ or farewell, shook hands all round, cracked his long whip, and went off into the unknown wilderness.
1933 W.H.S. Bell Bygone Days 12We took our boxes out of the wagon and placed them on the ground; he bade us ‘goeden dag’, cracked his whip and drove away, leaving us to our reflections.
dag.
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