Hei

/heɪ/ interjection

An exclamation used as a greeting or to get someone's attention; informal and friendly.

A variant spelling and pronunciation of 'hey,' which comes from Old English 'hǽ.' It's one of the oldest attention-getting sounds in English, used since medieval times.

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