Timeline for What is the correct pronunciation of Hele?
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| Jan 21, 2018 at 6:36 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 21, 2018 at 5:41 | answer | added | Wes Bucey | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 17:36 | vote | accept | spiceyokooko | ||
| Dec 27, 2012 at 17:30 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 17:29 | comment | added | John Lawler | It's an Old Saxon word. Nobody speaks Old Saxon any more. The only information we have about how it was pronounced is its spelling (which at that time was used to indicate pronunciation, unlike Modern English spelling). So @Robusto has it exactly right. If you're not dealing with a modern English word, you usually can pronounce it as if it were IPA, i.e, [hele]. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 17:20 | comment | added | spiceyokooko | @Robusto I've never heard of the word being used as a covering hence my query. Obviously some word pronunciations do change depending on meaning, August meaning month and August meaning venerable are obvious examples, I'm just wondering if this word is similar. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 17:16 | comment | added | Robusto | Honestly, I couldn't say. The definition given ("a covering ?") appears to be only a conjecture, as often happens in dead languages. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 17:11 | comment | added | spiceyokooko | @Robusto Is the pronunciation changing depending on the implied meaning? | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 17:10 | comment | added | Robusto | The Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary gives it as /hele/, and that's how I would have read it. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 16:55 | history | asked | spiceyokooko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |