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In French spelling, aspirated "h" (French: ''"h" aspiré'') is an initial silent letter “h” that represents a hiatus at a word boundary, in this case between the word in question's first vowel and the preceding word’s last vowel. At the same time, the aspirated “h” blocks the normally expected processes of contraction and liaison from occurring. The name of this now silent “h” refers not to aspiration but to its former pronunciation as the voiceless glottal fricative () in Old French and in Middle French. == List of French words which begin with an aspirated ⟨h⟩ == The following list contains only the dictionary head entries and not all the forms that can be derived from them, for example (it does not contain past participles or transitive verbs when used as adjectives or nouns), nor does include composite words, except in cases where the omission might cause confusion among homonyms distinguished only by diacritic signs. * In all French words that begin with the letter ⟨h⟩, the following letter is invariably a vowel. * Most, but not all aspirated h words are derived from Germanic languages. * The h is generally not aspirated in words of Latin and Greek origin. * Among the rare words that use a ⟨y⟩ after an initial ⟨h⟩, none has an aspirated ⟨h⟩. Likewise, ⟨h⟩ is rarely aspirated before a following ⟨i⟩. * For the other vowels, the ⟨h⟩ is often aspirated, except for those coming from the oldest Greek language roots. * The ⟨h⟩ is aspirated in onomatopoeia. * There are numerous exceptions where the h does not obey commonly observed rules regarding its status as aspirated, and often etymology cannot yield a satisfactory answer as to why. In French dictionaries, words with an initial aspirated ⟨h⟩ are traditionally prefixed with an asterisk but with no effect on their alphabetical arrangement. The following list is compiled from the ''Dictionnaire du Trésor de la langue française'' and the ''Dictionnaire de l'Académie française''. It lacks many proper names and recent borrowings. In general, if a borrowed word is pronounced with an in its language of origin, the ⟨h⟩ will be conserved in French orthography, and it will be aspirated. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aspirated h」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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