"heita" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008, Ben Trovato, Ben Trovato's Art of Survival, page 51:",
          "text": "I can hear the conversation: \"Heita, bra. Let's go. We don't need bullets.\"",
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          "ref": "1964, w:Lawrence G. Green, Old Men Say, page 61:",
          "text": "‘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.",
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          "ref": "1986, T. Thoka, English usage in Southern Africa, University of South Africa, page 20:",
          "text": "‘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?).",
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        "(South Africa, colloquial) Greeting, hello; hi"
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        {
          "word": "eh ta"
        },
        {
          "word": "eita"
        },
        {
          "word": "heit"
        },
        {
          "word": "heitha"
        },
        {
          "word": "heito"
        },
        {
          "word": "het"
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          "word": "heyitha"
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          "word": "heyta"
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          "word": "huit"
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      "ipa": "/ˈheɪt(a)/"
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  "word": "heita"
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      "word": "eh ta"
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      "word": "eita"
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      "word": "heit"
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      "word": "heitha"
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      "word": "heyta"
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