【英语】hello这个词来自哪里?
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伊兹杜巴 楼主
hello这个词来自哪里?打招呼时说hello,这里面有hell,这么不吉利的词用来打招呼吗?
2022年06月18日 15点06分 1
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Greeting between persons meeting, 1848, early references are to the U.S. western frontier (where hello, the house was said to be the usual greeting upon approaching a habitation).
It is an alteration of hallo, itself an alteration of holla, hollo, a shout to attract attention, which seems to go back at least to late 14c. (compare Middle English verb halouen "to shout in the chase," hallouing). OED cites Old High German hala, hola, emphatic imperative of halon, holon "to fetch," "used especially in hailing a ferryman." Fowler in the 1920s listed halloo, hallo, halloa, halloo, hello, hillo, hilloa, holla, holler, hollo, holloa, hollow, hullo, and writes, "The multiplicity of forms is bewildering ...."
Its rise to popularity as a greeting (1880s) coincides with the spread of the telephone, where it won out as the word said in answering, over Alexander Graham Bell's suggestion, ahoy. Central telephone exchange operators were known as hello-girls (1889).
Hello, formerly an Americanism, is now nearly as common as hullo in Britain (Say who you are; do not just say 'hello' is the warning given in our telephone directories) and the Englishman cannot be expected to give up the right to say hello if he likes it better than his native hullo. [H.W. Fowler, "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage," 1926]
引用自online etymology dictionary
2022年06月18日 16点06分 2
吧务
level 15
看词源就行了
2022年06月18日 18点06分 4
level 14
可能是来自地狱
2022年06月18日 21点06分 5
level 14
hello是电话普及之后才有的词
2022年06月19日 06点06分 6
what the hell[笑眼]
2022年06月19日 09点06分
电话比hello这个词晚出现至少50年
2022年08月03日 23点08分
level 8
hello来自holla,就是ho there,ho是叫人的声音,就跟咱们说哎,嘿一样。
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2022年08月03日 23点08分 9
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