-
opposed to ò [ɔ]). French. The
acute is used on é. It is
known as
accent aigu, in
contrast to the
accent grave which is the
accent sloped the
other way...
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Another idea is that "Adumu" is a
shortened version of the
Maasai greeting "
Aigus,"
which is
occasionally used to
signal the
start of the dance. According...
-
etymology alone.
Accents that
affect pronunciation The
acute accent (l'accent
aigu) é (e.g., école—school)
means that the
vowel is
pronounced /e/
instead of...
- march-past as well as the Adumu, or
aigus,
sometimes referred to as "the
jumping dance" by non-Maasai. (Both
adumu and
aigus are Maa
verbs meaning "to jump"...
- with an
uppercase "M" and often, but does not always,
contain an
accent aigu (é). The Métis of
Canada and the Métis of the
United States adopted parts...
- no
compulsory diacritics, but
allows the use of an
acute accent (accent
aigu) for disambiguation. Most often, an
accent on ⟨e⟩
marks a
stressed syllable...
- amplío ('I extend') vs. amplió ('he extended') y ɥ
Labialized palatal French aigu ('sharp') vs.
aiguille ('needle') ɯ ɰ**
Velar Korean 음식 ('food') vs. 의사 ('doctor')...
- and in Stone's 1726 one, and the
French translation Solide Hyperbolique Aigu in d'Alembert's 1751 one.
Although credited with
primacy by his contemporaries...
-
homographs such as a/à ("has"/"to") or ou/où ("or"/"where"). The
acute (accent
aigu) is only used in "é",
modifying the "e" to make the
sound /e/, as in étoile...
- picarde)
appears give “
aigu, piquant” as a definition.
While piquant is
quite straightforward—meaning spiky, pointy, sharp—
aigu is much more ambiguous...
