The natives of New Zealand use noses as a greeting, Iranians shake hands and then put their right hands on their hearts, in Samoa they sniff you when they meet, and in Kenya they will dance a welcome dance. In Russia, they will tell you: "Hello."
The meaning of the word "hello"
Greetings in different languages of the world not only sound differently, but also carry different meanings. For example, the Arabic “salaam” is translated as “peace be upon you”, the Japanese “connective” - “the day has come”, the Georgian “hamarjob” - “be right” or “win”.
What does the Russian word "hello" mean? At the meeting, we wish the interlocutor health, that is, health.
Where did the word come from
The first mention of the word "hello" is found in the annals of the XI century, before that in Russia the expression "goy esi" was used, to which an appeal to a person was added. For example: "Goy, red maiden!". Literally, in modern language, this can be translated as "you are now and be still alive", which in fact is also a wish of health. Despite the fact that the word "hello" appeared in the language quite early, it gained distribution only by the end of the 17th century.
How do you spell
Each person sooner or later wonders how to spell the word "hello." Although it has been used actively in the language for several centuries, there are those who may have difficulty writing it.
Why can you make a mistake when writing? The thing is that the letter "B" is not pronounced. Let's recall the school curriculum and repeat the rule of writing unpronounceable consonants in the roots of words. A well-known Russian linguist D.E. Rosenthal offers to check the spelling of lexical units, which include a group of consonants , zdn, vdsk, ntsk, stl, stn, etc., to change the word or pick the one-root so that the vowel comes after the consonant. For example, “sad - sad”, “sun - sunny”, “whistle - whistle”.
Now that we are armed with the rule, we can determine how the word "hello" is spelled. It will be easy for us to check the spelling, since we can easily pick up a lot of words with the same root: "health", "health", "healthy". Everywhere the letter "in" is well heard.
How to pronounce
When we know exactly how the word "hello" is spelled, it will not be out of place to turn to orthoepy. Orthoepic norms - a set of pronunciation and stress rules aimed at improving speech culture.
According to the rules of the Russian language, the letter "c" in "hello" is not pronounced, the emphasis falls on the first syllable.
There is no doubt in how the word "hello" is written, and even more so in its pronunciation, because it is very easy to remember!