hey
意味
- おや,おい,へえ,ちょっと(注意を促したり,喜び・驚き・困惑などの突然わき起こった感情の発声)
例文
Hey, could you give me a hand over here, please?
手を貸してちょうだい。
Hey, have you ever seen a guy's privates before?
ねえ、男子のアソコ見たことある?
Hey, I'm tired, so I'm going to go to bed early.
ねぇ、疲れてるから、早く寝るつもりなんだよ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English hey, hei, also without h- in ey, from Old English *hē, ēa (interjection), attested as first element in hēlā, ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”). Cognate with Dutch hé, hei (“hi, hey”), German hei (“hey, wow”), Danish and Swedish hej (“hello, hey”), Faroese hey (“hey, hello”), Old Norse, Icelandic and Norwegian hei (“hey”), Polish hej (“hey, hello”), Romanian hei, Russian эй (ej, “hey”); see heigh.