Actual #Scottish person here.
"Syne" is Scots for "since".
Auld lang syne literally means "A long time since" or, figuratively, "for old times' sake."
It's generally accepted that Burns didn't create it, but like many of the songs and poems he curated, he may have "improved" it.
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