英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈheɪt(a)/

間投詞

heita

1. (South Africa, colloquial) Greeting, hello; hi
   • 2008, Ben Trovato, Ben Trovato's Art of Survival, page 51:

     I can hear the conversation: "Heita, bra. Let's go. We don't need bullets."

   • 1964, w:Lawrence G. Green, Old Men Say, page 61:

     ‘Het ou Pellie!’ I suppose that is the most typical of the popular greetings that belong essentially to Cape Town; but the origin would be hard to trace. One expert thinks it falls into the Malay-Portuguese group.

   • 1986, T. Thoka, English usage in Southern Africa, University of South Africa, page 20:

     ‘Heita’ is a popular greeting used by the mapantsula. It simply means ‘hello’. Of course, one can go further by saying ‘Heita hoezet majita?’ (Hello, how are you, friends?).

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