Talk:להבֿדיל

@-sche Do you know Yiddish well enough to fix the pronunciation? The label "General American" is clearly wrong. Benwing2 (talk) 22:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

It was added in diff to this entry and the Englsh entry at the same time; we could probably just remove it here. User:Sije or User:Insaneguy1083 might know what the Yiddish pronunciation is (it might even be that this correct as-is apart from the label, but I defer to them). Sadly User:Metaknowledge, who added many Yiddish pronunciations, is inactive. - -sche (discuss) 00:03, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

JNW gives lehavdl, which one can reasonably interpret as either /ɫɛˈhavdɫ̩/ or /ɫəˈhavdɫ̩/, however the University of Kentucky Yiddish dictionary lookup gives lehavdil. The CYED (Verterbukh) however also gives lehavdl, as does the Belarusian-Yiddish dictionary (as lehávdl). Good to get rid of the "General American" label for sure, and the consensus does tend towards -dl rather than -dil so that should be added somewhere, but I guess it's up to you whether you want to get rid of "lehavdil" entirely or have it as an alternate pronunciation alongside "lehavdl" (e.g. tr="lehavdl, lehavdil" or some such). Insaneguy1083 (talk) 00:17, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

@Insaneguy1083 Thanks! I have removed lehavdil entirely, which seems best; note that the subst= notation in the quote already used just lehavdl. Benwing2 (talk) 08:31, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree with the removal of the i in lehavdil; although I think the e should also maybe be removed since in my experience it's pronounced more like מנורה which is transliterated here within no e after the m. Sije (talk) 08:57, 26 May 2024 (UTC)