hola

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Hevwate

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(Îngilîzî)

hallo, hoi

Pircarînî

Ji Middle Dutch mîras hatiye girtin

Hevwate bi Middle Low German

Hevwate bi Middle High German

In summary

From Late Middle Dutch hola (“wait up!, hold on!, calm down!”), which also had the dialectal form holla; compare Middle Low German hola!, holda! (interjection), Middle High German holā! (interjection), of obscure origin. Possibly from the imperative of Middle Dutch halen, *holen (“to fetch”) (> dialectal holen), or possibly from Old French holà (“hey!”), from ho (“hold!, halt!, stop!”) + là (“there”).