John Cowan wrote:
>Dan Jones scripsit:
>
>> The original Latin name was /ha:/, IIRC. When initial /h/ became silent,
>
>What I would like to know is how the people who first wrote Germanic
languages
>*more romanico* (as opposed to the Greek-based Gothic script) learned to
>apply the letter H to their /h/, since Latin had long since lost that
equation.
Just speculating: (1) perhaps Church Latin maintained the pronunciation?
or
(2) Pronunciation of H must have survived _as something_ into the time when
other European languages (including English) first began to be written.
English or anglicized Irish monks, who would have been familiar with its
use?