Syllable fugues-h

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The syllable fugue-h (also: syllable initial h , hyphenation-h , syllable boundaries-h , connection-h , hiat avoidance-h ) is a letter h in linguistics , which in German in trochaic hereditary words then between the prominent (stressed) syllable and the reducing syllable or ancillary syllable is inserted if two vowel letters would otherwise meet at this point. Examples: ge h s , Krä h e , Rei h e , Dro h ung .

There is a hiatus at this point ; In writing, without the syllable-h, a confusing accumulation of vowel letters would appear. The syllable fugue-h serves the reader as a pronunciation aid and shows him that there is a syllable boundary here and where it is exactly. Examples: The word sloe could be mistakenly mistaken for a rhyming word for snow because of the spelling <ee>, if there was no syllable fugue-h here; In the case of the word Lohe , if the <h> were omitted, readers could mistakenly interpret the spelling <oe> as an alternative spelling for the umlaut <ö>.

It is typical of New High German that the spellings of prominent syllables are mostly retained when changing between inflection and derivative forms. Spellings with a syllable fugue-h are therefore retained even if the reducing or ancillary syllable is omitted. Examples: toe → toe, the cattle → the cattle .

Delimitation: syllable fugues-h and expansion-h

The syllable joint-h is often used by laymen mistakenly one hour strain kept. This error is nourished by the fact that it is silent (like the stretching h) and that it (like the stretching h) always appears after long vowels . However, vowels that are not followed by a consonant are always long in prominent syllables.

At first glance, the syllable fugue-h can be distinguished from the stretch-h, because it is not followed by a consonant letter <l>, <m>, <n> or <r>. Only in inflection forms, especially in participles , can letter sequences such as “syllable fugues-h + t” occur (examples: sew → you sew, he sews, sewed , also: seam ).

pronunciation

The syllable fugue-h is not uttered in standard pronunciation , but is mute. When singing or in an exaggerated typeface-oriented pronunciation ( pilot language ), as practiced by some teachers in class, it can be spoken as a sound [h] .

etymology

The syllable fugue-h arose at the transition from Middle High German to Early New High German , after some consonant sounds (w, j, g, h) had fallen silent in intervowel positions; the words concerned were written according to the pattern of words like see (ahd. sehan [with x-sound ] → mhd. see [with x-sound] → nhd. see [mute]) now with a letter h (ahd. êwa → mhd. êwe → nhd. marriage ; ahd. fruoji → mhd. Früheje → nhd. early ; ahd. gangan → mhd. against → nhd. go ).

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According to Monophthong , the syllable fugue-h is almost always set if a trochaic form exists. Examples: turn, early (trochaeus: early , earlier ), height, crow, cow (trochaeus: cows ), tan , cattle (trochaeus: the cattle ). The etymology is not always obvious to laypeople ( snow white , interjections like oh ). Occasionally the syllable fugue-h is also omitted (examples: sowing , but: sewing ).

Particle words like there, never, where, you are inflexible and consequently do not produce troche; they are therefore always written without the syllable fugue-h. An exception is the word ja , from which the verb form affirmative can be derived.

The syllable fugue-h is never written after the diphthongs [ɔɪ̯] ( expensive ) and [aʊ̯] ( wall ). The last remaining irregularity - the spelling of the word rough with an h - was abolished with the reform of German spelling in 1996 . After the diphthong [aɪ̯], the syllable fugue-h is written irregularly ( flourish, heron, consecration, forgive , but: eggs, bran, lyre, snow ).

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