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conversation: hello and goodbye

Greetings and salutations are another area of Latejami that are not addressed in the reference materails. Such forms are extremely varied in different languages around the world, and I won't try to replicate them.
I would like a simple "hello" and "goodbye", though. Lojban uses "coi" and "co'o", respectively.
 
Latejami has "Tomwe" ('Hey!, Say there!, Ahoy!, attempt to get someone's attention'), but that doesn't really mean what "hello" does.
 
I think it was Veoler who some time back came up with an equivalent of "Greeted one-VOC" for 'hello'.
 
'Greet' is "citega", and I think 'greeted one' would be the middle voice noun form of that, i.e., "citegemi". The vocative suffix is "-we", so we have "Citegemwe!".
 
Or simply "Dasu citega bavi xevi" (I'm greeting you).
 
As for saying goodbye, I don't know how to do that simply. There seems to be no Latejami word for "say goodbye, take one's leave, bid farewell"
 
stevo