Indeed. That's why I'm interested in "tchuss". Here's my 5-second-haven't-had-any-coffee-yet theory: "tchuss" was a recent export from Italy north to Germany. The Teutonic tongue couldn't quite wrap itself around the more mellifluous "ciao" and instead substituted a surlier, more Deutsch sounding ending involving gnashing of teeth and snake-like hissing.
Erm...probably not, but unless the idea behind "bye!" in this form goes back to where Romance and Germanic languages became distinct from one another, I'd guess that it's a recent borrowing.
I suppose a German etymological dictionary would be of some use here (it's easy to find the roots of ciao, but I would imagine is it considerably more difficult to find tchuss, simply because it's not a word Americans have adopted). Sadly, I have none at my disposal.
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Erm...probably not, but unless the idea behind "bye!" in this form goes back to where Romance and Germanic languages became distinct from one another, I'd guess that it's a recent borrowing.
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