Hoi (interjection)

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Hoi is a dialectal or slang interjection that has multiple meanings.

Alemannic area and South Tyrol

In large parts of German-speaking Switzerland , in southern Baden , in Liechtenstein , in Lustenau in Vorarlberg and in German-speaking South Tyrol , the exclamation hoi is used as a greeting in the sense of "hello". This current importance can only be proven since the 20th century. In Swiss Idiotikon where the article hoi has been written in the 1880s, it is still lacking, also in Leo Jutz ' Vorarlbergischem dictionary . Anna Zollinger-Escher is hoi established in 1925 as a welcome for the Northeast Switzerland (Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Toggenburg, Werdenberg) "especially among boys," the Linguistic Atlas of the German Switzerland is 1947 witnessed by a Aarauer responsible person for the children's language, and according to Atlas Swiss folklore is the “latest fashion for children or boys” of the cantons in St. Gallen and Frauenfeld. Today the expression can be heard in all of German-speaking Switzerland, although hoi is still explicitly rejected in parts of western German-speaking Switzerland, namely in the cantons of Basel, Bern, Friborg and Valais. In Vorarlberg, according to Allgäuer (2008), the greeting only prevailed in the area near Switzerland.

In Baden, in parts of the Swiss Central Plateau, in Alpine German-speaking Switzerland and in Vorarlberg, hoi is more common than a call from shepherds and carters to the cattle to keep them in order or to drive them on (in this role it was also the idioticon -Editorial department known in the late 19th century), then also as an encouraging shout to people in the sense of "up !, forward!" and in some places finally as a cry of astonishment.

Swabia

In parts of Swabia , hoi is used to express astonishment or amazement.

Hoi in the sense of a drive is known in Swabian as in Alemannic bathing and Switzerland.

Netherlands

In the Netherlands , the exclamation originally meant to express joy. Hoi has also been used as a slang greeting since the middle of the 20th century .

history

The Alemannic and South Tyrolean greeting hoi should go back to the driver's call. The Dutch hoi in the sense of “hello” is possibly an abbreviation of the sailor's greeting ahoi . This sailor's greeting, borrowed from English, is of course composed of the components a and hoi . The exclamatory Hoi should ultimately be onomatopoeic and can thus appear quite independently in different places, in different languages ​​and in different phonetic expressions.

literature

  • Baden dictionary vol. II p. 754, article hoi! .
  • Swabian Dictionary Vol. III Sp. 760, Article hoi .
  • Schweizerisches Idiotikon Vol. II Sp. 860, Article hoi (status at the end of the 19th century).
  • Vorarlberg dictionary including the Principality of Liechtenstein, Vol. I, Sp. 148, article hoi .
  • Herbert Allgäuer: Vorarlberg dialect dictionary. Feldkirch-Gisingen 2008, article hoi .
  • Elvira Glaser : Hoi! In: Arno Ruoff, Peter Löffelad (eds.): Syntax and stylistics of everyday language. Contributions to the 12th workshop on Alemannic dialectology September 25-29, 1996 in Ellwangen / Jagst. Tübingen 1997 (Idiomatica 18), pp. 257-262.
  • Albert Hauser : Grüezi and goodbye. Greetings and manners from the 17th century to the present day. Zurich 1998.
  • Anna Zollinger-Escher: The greetings of German Switzerland. Diss. Zurich. Freiburg i. Br. 1925.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The South Tyrolean dialect dictionary at www.oschpele.ritten.org , accessed on May 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Elvira Glaser (1997).
  3. ^ A b Herbert Allgäuer: Vorarlberger Dialect Dictionary. Feldkirch-Gisingen 2008, article hoi .
  4. ↑ Baden dictionary vol. II p. 754, article hoi! .
  5. ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon Vol. II Sp. 860, Article hoi .
  6. ↑ Vorarlberg dictionary including the Principality of Liechtenstein, edited by Leo Jutz, Vol. I Sp. 148, Article hoi .
  7. ↑ a b Swabian Dictionary Vol. III Sp. 760, Article hoi .
  8. ↑ Jürgen Dillmann: It's not that far from Hoi to Öha. In: Augsburger Allgemeine (online) from January 3, 2012, accessed on December 18, 2013.
  9. ↑ Etymology Bank , accessed May 1, 2014 (Dutch).
  10. ↑ Kluge. Etymological dictionary of the German language, edited by Elmar Seebold. De Gruyter, 25th edition Berlin / Boston 2011, s. v. ahoy .