ah

ah
ah mid-15c., an expression of surprise, delight, disgust or pain in nearly all Indo-European languages, but not found in Old English (where the equivalent expression was la!), so perhaps from O.Fr. a "ah!, oh! woe!"

Etymology dictionary. 2014.

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