Is Papa Shee right? Does Hello really mean “Hell oo”?

Ghanaian artiste, Papa Shee, has claimed that the term “hello” is an inappropriate one that will see people to hell.

Is Papa Shee right? Does Hello really mean “Hell oo”?
Papa Shee

Papa Shee had earlier said that the term "Hello" literally translates to "Hell oo".

According to him, the devil (satan) is very cunning, and he puts men into tight corners always especially with the words of their own mouths.

The 'Konyon So' hitmaker said whoever answers a call by saying ‘hello’ is bound for hellfire.

Per his words, calls should be answered with Hallelujah’ or ‘Amen’ since people now know the implication of the word ‘hello’.

“The Enemy is very crafty. You can say ‘praise the Lord, or Amen or Good morning, Good afternoon when you receive a call. Words are very powerful."

The enemy is very crafty. Hello, and other words are all terms the devil has devised. Hello means ‘HELL OOO’, Evangelist Papa Shee added.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo, which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman".

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It also connects the development of helloto the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there').

As in addition to hello, halloo, hallo, hollo, hullo and (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels.

The use of hello as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo.

Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.

This means that the word Hello, cannot be literally translated into "Hell oo" because it is a variation of another language that means nothing like hell. 

It can be used as a fun pun to joke, but in reality, it is not what Papa Shee says it is.