What is the origin of the word "Hi"?

Answer 1

Hi is an informal greeting meaning hello. Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language and its meaning is synonymous with other similar sounding salutations such as "Hi" or "Hey". Hello is thought to have been first recorded in 1588 [1]. The earliest record of 'hollo', from which the word 'hello' derivates, is found in Andrew Boorde's 1542 book "A compendious regyment or a dyetary of helth". In the book, it is presented as 'holowynge'. Many different languages use an equivalent expression which sounds similar often either starting with an "h" or having a "l" sound. Examples would be Russian "алло" (pronounced as 'allo'), Spanish "hola", and Thai "haloo". It should be noted that if some of these languages imported the English word to use it as a greeting on attending the telephone, several others have their own specific origin for the word, as with Portuguese "olá" and Spanish "hola", both probably of Arabic origin, German "hallo" and Hungarian "hallom". There are many different theories to the orgins of the word. It may be a contraction of archaic English "whole be thou".[1] Another source may be the phrase "Hail, Thou", as in The Bible; Luke 1:28 and Matthew 27:14. Hello is alternatively thought to come from the word hollo (also holla, holloa). [2] The definition of hollo is to shout or an exclamation originally shouted in a fox hunt when a fox was spotted.[3]. Or it may be a loanword from hungarian (see below.)
Hullo
In British English."Hello" may also be derived from "Hullo". "Hullo" was in use before hello and was used as a greeting and also an expression of surprise[citation needed]. Though much less common than it used to be, the word "hullo" is still in use, mainly in British English.
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The word hello is also credited to Thomas Edison specifically as a way to greet someone when answering the telephone; allegedly when expressing his surprise with a misheard "Hullo". [4] Because of hello's first beginning association with telephones, around 1889 central telephone exchange operators were known as hello-girls. [5]
In Hungarian, 'Hallod?' (pron. roughly as British "hullo") means "Do you hear [it/what I am saying]?" and the answer is 'Hallom.' (pron. like "hullom") for "I hear [it/what you are saying].". One therefore inquires how this Hungarian sentence becaume part of international vocabulary.
The Hungarian inventor Tivadar Puskas was in America when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Soon Puskas began work on a telephone exchange. According to Thomas Edison, "Tivadar Puskas was the first person to suggest the idea of a telephone exchange". Puskas's idea finally became a reality in 1877 in Boston. It was then that the word "hallom", which later became "hallo/hello" was used for the first time in a telephone conversation when, on hearing the voice of the person at the other end of the line, an exultant Puskas shouted out in Hungarian "hallom" "I hear you".

Answer 2

I'm no longer British, however I must suppose it is the context that defines how the phrase is used. Just as "***" is a specified time period for an animal, as good as a instead impolite time period for the buttocks, "bloody" can imply blood-soaked, or it may be used as an oath. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, it's been "a British intens. swear phrase considering a minimum of 1676." That supply is going directly to record "that it was once "reliable" earlier than c.1750, and it was once utilized by Fielding and Swift, however closely tabooed c.1750-c.1920, possibly from imagined arrangement with menstruation; Johnson calls it "very vulgar..." Eric Partridge, in Words, Words, Words (Methuen, 1933), shows six viable origins, prompting the notion that blood is effortlessly vibrant or distressing as essentially the most possible. He additionally downplays the idea that it originates from "through our Lady" (an invocation of the Virgin Mary) as being phonetically not likely (to whit I agree). I've additionally heard it stated that it comes from an historic oath, "God's blood," (i.e., the blood that was once shed through Jesus whilst He died upon the pass). The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology says that is "most likely" the beginning, however the OED says "there's no flooring for the perception". In brief, we might by no means realize for particular of the beginning.

Answer 3

Someone felt saying "Hello" took too long?

Edit: Oops! I was backwards, "Hi!" was first and apparently a shortened form of "Hey!."

Found this on a website: "Hi" preceded "hello." The Oxford English Dictionary says "hi" is a "parallel form of HEY." The first recorded uses of these interjections in writing: "hi," the year 1475; "hey," 1225; "hello" (a variant of "hallo"), 1883.

Answer 4

I thought Hi came from Hiya, which is a lazy way of saying How are you.

Answer 5

the dictionary tells you the origin of words. awww...i love mega nice people. haha.

Answer 6

Hiya...hahahah

Answer 7

"H" is the origin