Talk:hallo

Wuh?
To chase after someone? Certainly most of these are obsolete? DAVilla 10:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The word is obsolete. It also appears that the translations are all a translation of "hello". --Eean 18:34, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I want to know what is this page about and why is it hallo anyway well all i see is a world says hallo and the lanague says the same thing whatthe word hello who made the word up how it came to be well we not going to know.

Hungarian origin
Removed from the entry for confirmation. Please provide sources, preferably dictionaries. It is easy enough to restore it good evidence exists. DCDuring TALK 20:30, 24 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Possibly from the Hungarian "hallom", which means "I do hear you". When the first long-distance telephone connection was tested by Tivadar Puskás and Edison on April 2, 1878, Puskás repeatedly and vehemently used the word "hallom" to respond. It became an "insider phrase" for telephone exchange testers, and later used in the USA to respond to telephone calls, from where it started to spread (and ultimately it have reached Hungary again, where it is used as well).

halloo
interjection, noun, transitive and intransitive verb Same as halloo Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:03, 7 September 2019 (UTC)