英语词汇ahoy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ahoy. Sailors had been saying “ahoy” for “hello” or “hey” at least a few years prior to 1751, when Tobias Smollett first re- corded it in his novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle: “Ho! the house a hoy.” The word is a combination of the interjection a and hoy, a natural exclamation used to attract attention that is first recorded as a cry for calling hogs and which in nautical language was also spelled “hoay.” Incidentally, ahoy was sug- gested by Alexander Graham Bell as the salutation for tele- phone calls when he invented the telephone, but the term never caught on, phone users opting for “hello” and depriving ahoy of a more prominent place in the language.

词汇	ahoy
词源	ahoy. Sailors had been saying “ahoy” for “hello” or “hey” at least a few years prior to 1751, when Tobias Smollett first re- corded it in his novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle: “Ho! the house a hoy.” The word is a combination of the interjection a and hoy, a natural exclamation used to attract attention that is first recorded as a cry for calling hogs and which in nautical language was also spelled “hoay.” Incidentally, ahoy was sug- gested by Alexander Graham Bell as the salutation for tele- phone calls when he invented the telephone, but the term never caught on, phone users opting for “hello” and depriving ahoy of a more prominent place in the language.
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