what does the world " hello" means? from where it is orginated?

Answer 1

Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language and is synonymous with other greetings such as Hi or Hey. Hello was recorded in dictionaries as early as 1883.

Many stories date the first use of hello (with that spelling) to around the time of the invention of the telephone in 1876. It was however used in print in Roughing It by Mark Twain in 1872 (written between 1870 and 1871),[1] so its first use must have predated the telephone:

"A miner came out and said: 'Hello!'"

There are many different theories to the origins of the word. It may be a contraction of archaic English "whole be thou".[6] Another source may be the phrase "Hail, Thou", as in the Bible; Luke 1:28 and Matthew 27:14.

The Germanic languages share an ancient phoneme that may be the origin of hello: English, hail; German, heil; Scandinavian, hej; old Norse, heill. The core meaning may be something like "safe, healthy" and related to the English word "whole", i.e. physically sound. See also "hale and hearty".

Answer 2

Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language and is synonymous with other greetings such as Hi or Hey. Hello was recorded in dictionaries as early as 1883. Hi or Hey is not a proper way to say hello to a person you owe respect to.


"A miner came out and said: "Hello!"

Answer 3

"Hello" is an English greeting.

Wikipedia (1) has a history of the word and its usage.