hullo
See also: hüllő
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /hʌˈləʊ/, /həˈləʊ/
Interjection
hullo
- (Britain, New Zealand) Alternative form of hello (Greeting.)
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “II, XV, and XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- “Mr Wooster?” “Oh, hullo, Lady Wickham.”
[...] “Hullo, Bobbie,” I said. “Hullo, Bertie,” she said. “Hullo, Upjohn,” I said. The correct response to this would have been “Hullo, Wooster”, but he blew up in his lines and merely made a noise like a wolf with its big toe caught in a trap.
[...] But as I approached the [telephone] and unhooked the thing you unhook, I was far from being at my most nonchalant, and when I heard Upjohn are-you-there-ing at the other end my manly spirit definitely blew a fuse. For I could tell by his voice that he was in the testiest of moods. Not even when conferring with me at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, on the occasion when I put sherbet in the ink, had I sensed in him a more marked stirred-up-ness. “Hullo? Hullo? Hullo? Are you there? Will you kindly answer me? This is Mr Upjohn speaking.”
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- (Britain, dated, New Zealand) Alternative form of hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)
- 1939, Country Life (volume 85, page 290)
- "Hullo, there's a monkey's wedding," said my wife's niece, a girl of about twenty, born in South Africa […] She was looking out on the lawn, and it was one of those lovely April mornings with sunshine and rain alternating […]
- 1939, Country Life (volume 85, page 290)
Lule Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *ullō, from Proto-Germanic *wullō.
Inflection
Even o-stem, lˈl-ll gradation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | hulˈlo | |||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | hullo | |||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | hulˈlo | hullo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | hullov | hullojt | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | hullo | hulloj | ||||||||||||||||||||
Illative | hulˈluj | hullojda | ||||||||||||||||||||
Inessive | hullon | hullojn | ||||||||||||||||||||
Elative | hullos | hullojs | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comitative | hullojn hullujn |
hulloj | ||||||||||||||||||||
Abessive | hullodagá hullodagi |
hullojdagá hullojdagi | ||||||||||||||||||||
Essive | hulˈlon | |||||||||||||||||||||
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