Quote Originally Posted by Boroda
Quote Originally Posted by chaika
Ага, понятно. Это как наш hellooooo!
От него, собственно, и происходящее
In Russian, yes, this came from English, but English borrowed it also, from German.

Etymology

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo,[3] which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imper[ative] of halôn, holôn to fetch, used esp[ecially] in hailing a ferryman."[4] It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there').[5]