Fattighjon?

[James Higgins]

I'm not sure I understand what this is.  
Fattig-poor + hjon-?
 
MVH
Jim

[James Higgins]

Found it! = pauper/inmate

[Ingela Martenius]

Hjon means just people, or really people belonging to the household. Today it's commonly thought that hjon in itself means pauper, but you have to qualify hjon with fattig (poor) to mean pauper.
A very common use of hjon is in the combination hjonelag which means marriage.
 
Ingela

[James Higgins]

I suspected that there was a connected meaning to this.
As it's pronounced is the h or j silent, or both.
ie. fah-ti-h/jon or fah-ti-on?  
 
Tack Ingela

[Heikki Särkkä]

Using a slightly different respelling system, the pronunciation is fut-ty-yoon (Br E) or fot-ty-yoon (AmE).

[Heikki Särkkä]

Perhaps I should have added that I didn't mean ty as in Ty-son, but ty as in pret-ty.