heita

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1. South AfricacolloquialGreeting, hello; hi

   I can hear the conversation: "Heita, bra. Let's go. We don't need bullets."

   2008, Ben Trovato, Ben Trovato's Art of Survival, page 51

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   ‘Het ou Pellie!’ I suppose that is the most typical of the popular greetings that belong essentially to Cape Town; but the origin would be hard to trace. One expert thinks it falls into the Malay-Portuguese group.

   1964, w:Lawrence G. Green, Old Men Say, page 61

   ‘Heita’ is a popular greeting used by the mapantsula. It simply means ‘hello’. Of course, one can go further by saying ‘Heita hoezet majita?’ (Hello, how are you, friends?).

   1986, T. Thoka, English usage in Southern Africa, University of South Africa, page 20