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hey

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Konzepte

He

Moin

Grüß dich

Ich grüße dich

Ah

der dort

Hei

Pass bloß auf

einen Moment

O je

Gott zum Gruße!

Grüß Gott!

einen Augenblick

he

adieu

Frequenz

A1
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/heɪ/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle English hey, hei, also without h- in ey, from Old English *hē, ēa (interjection), attested as first element in hēlā, ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”). Cognate with Dutch hé, hei (“hi, hey”), German hei (“hey, wow”), Danish and Swedish hej (“hello, hey”), Faroese hey (“hey, hello”), Old Norse, Icelandic and Norwegian hei (“hey”), Polish hej (“hey, hello”), Romanian hei, Russian эй (ej, “hey”); see heigh. Probably a natural expression, as may be inferred from its presence with similar meaning in many other unrelated languages: for example, Burmese ဟေး (he:), Finnish hei, Unami hè, and Mandarin 哎 (āi), and various sound-alikes as Ancient Greek εἶα (eîa) and Latin eia, eho, Sanskrit हे (he). See also hello.

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