Webster's dictionary from 1913 traces the etymology of holloa to the Old English

halow and suggests: "Perhaps from ah + lo; compare Anglo Saxon eal?."

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, hallo is a modification of the

obsolete holla (stop!), perhaps from Old French hola (ho, ho! + la, there, from
Latin illac, that way).[27]

The Old English verb, h?lan (1. wv/t1b 1 to heal, cure, save; greet, salute; geh?l!
Hosanna!), may be the ultimate origin of the word.[28] H?lan is likely a cognate of
German Heil (meaning complete for things and healthy for beings) and other similar
words of Germanic origin. Bill Bryson asserts in his book Mother Tongue that
"hello" comes from Old English h�l b�o �u ("Hale be thou", or "whole be thou",
meaning a wish for good health) (see also "goodbye" which is a contraction of "God
be with you".

"Hello, World" computer program

Main article: "Hello, World!" program
Students learning a new computer programming language will often begin by writing a
"Hello, World!" program, which does nothing but issue the message "Hello, world" to
the user (such as by displaying it on a screen). This popular tradition arose from
an introductory chapter of the book The C Programming Language by Kernighan &
Ritchie, which reused the following example taken from earlier memos by Brian
Kernighan at Bell Labs: