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How do you read the "he" with stroke underneath?
#1
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There is a stroke under "he".
I know the stroke under "nun" should be "voiceless"(why make the "nun" there then? <!-- sHuh --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/huh.gif" alt="Huh" title="Huh" /><!-- sHuh --> )
then...how should This h-W-W be pronounced?
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#2
I can't see your image, but I think you might be referring to the independent pronoun for he, which is "huw" in aramaic. There are two other variants of it with an underscored letter "H". To my knowledge, this means the "H" is silent.

So you would have:

huw (maybe pronounced "who", or "who:wa")
:uw (maybe pronounced "uw", or "u:wa")
:w (possibly pronounced with a very quick "wa")
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#3
I may have misread your post, sorry.

In pronouncing (H:WaW) and (H:WaW), one hypothesis could be that the first is "he'waa'wa" and the second "waa'wa", or maybe that the last (W) is silent. It is hard to be definitive with pronunciation, as it is a moving target.

A personal view of mine is that the first is translatable as they-became , or they-beith (archaic) to fit within various present tense contexts, and the second as they-were, the past tense. So the purpose of the (H) being to put it into the past tense.
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