Question

III. Read the passage given below and answer the following questions : (25)
We use the word 'hello' many times a day. Have you wondered why we use this particular
word, rather than any other? Well, there are many interesting theories about the origin of
the word. Some say that it is an abbreviated form of an old English greeting Whole be thou
that people used in olden times when they met. Another theory says that over the ages, the
biblical greeting 'Hail thou' gradually turned into 'hello',
The French language got the word 'holla' meaning 'stop there. The German language
tanguage also had a greeting 'hell' which meant 'good health in the Hungarian language
the word 'Hallod' means 'Do you hear what I am saying?' The reply to this is 'Hallom' which
means hear what you are saying,
The oxford dictionary says that "hullo and 'hello' and its other derivatives come from the
verb hallow, an old English word meaning, 'to shout in excitement. The word was first
recorded in English dictionaries in 1883!
When the telephone was invented, Alexandet Graham Bell suggested that the words
Ahoy Ahoy! be used to start a conversation, Thomas Edison suggested that the word
"hello be used as the initial greeting in a phorte call.
This was accepted and mentioned in
the manuals that were issued with early telephones,
01. How was 'Hello' derived from an old English greeting?
O2 How is the word 'Hello' related to words from other languages?
03. What does the Oxford Dictionary say about "Hello"?
04. What did Graham Bell suggest?
05. Whose suggestion was finally accepted?​

Answer 1

Q5 Ans : thomas Edison's suggestion was accepted  

Q4 Ans : Graham Bell suggested that Ahoy Ahoy! be used to start a conversation

Q3 Ans : The oxford dictionary says that hullo and hello and its other derivatives come from the verb hallow an old English word meaning, 'to shout in excitement.