history of "hello"?

[bryllars at concentric.net]

I believe David Dalby and William Stewart had African sources for OK and
perhaps for  Hi
but don't know the source of Hello

Bryllars at concentric.net





At 06:30 PM 6/25/01 +0100, you wrote:
>don't know about "hello", but please either post responses or send me
>offline when you get it.
>	for "OK" there's lots of lit. See American Speech over the
>years, esp by Allen Walker Read.
>	--peter
>
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