[mbrfl]

Interesting back story to a fairly common word. I remember reading a few years back that some linguists actually claimed to have figured out about 100 or so words of ‘Proto-World’, the supposed ancestor to all modern languages. The idea of “Proto-World’ is still controversial among linguists, I believe. I’m not a linguist. I don’t even speak any foreign languages. But I find the subject interesting.

[tang-soo]

Interesting back story to a fairly common word. I remember reading a few years back that some linguists actually claimed to have figured out about 100 or so words of ‘Proto-World’, the supposed ancestor to all modern languages. The idea of “Proto-World’ is still controversial among linguists, I believe. I’m not a linguist. I don’t even speak any foreign languages. But I find the subject interesting.

The Hebrew letter that is phonetically pronounced as "Hey" or "Hay" is also a Hebrew word that means "Behold" and is meant to bring attention to something important. An example ...

Behold,, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. -- Isaiah 7:14

I have not seen this corroborated elsewhere, but I have thought that may be the source for the English exclamation, "Hey" as in "Hey, look out!"