Yo! Is this good Latin?

[Jona Lendering]

I've often wondered if "Ave!" was the root of the North East England greeting "Away, man."?

Well, why not? In Holland (probably Flanders too), we have "jeminee", to express a combination of shock and amazement, which is certainly derived from "gemini". It's probably not just nouns and verbs that we've taken from Latin, but interjections as well.

And if I may digress a bit, I recently discovered the most insane etymology I've ever encountered: the Dutch word "ouwehoeren" means something like "to waffle", "to talk nonsense". Some purists spell it "oudehoeren", as if it's derived from two words meaning "old hookers". But it's actually derived from... augur!