Regarding copacetic – It first appeared in a dictionary in 1919, and it is almost certain to have originated in the USA. The two theories that have been put forward regarding hebrew origins are that Jewish shopkeepers in the south may have used the phrase hakol b’seder or hakol b’tzedek, and this may have been heard by gentiles as copacetic. The problem is that no-one used everyday hebrew conversationally at the time, certainly not in the US. A Jewish shopkeeper would have been much more likely to say “alles is in ordnung” in Yiddish/German than to use Hebrew. Hakol b’seder is an Israeli expression that came into use at the earliest after WW2, so it obviously cannot have influenced usage in 1919. There is no consensus on what the origin of the word is, but almost all etymologists discount a Hebrew origin.
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