- In linguistics, a
paroxytone (Gr****: παροξύτονος, paroxýtonos) is a word with
stress on the
penultimate syllable, that is, the second-to-last syllable...
- : 118 such as the
English words correct and reward. It
contrasts with a
paroxytone,
stressed on the
penultimate (second-last) syllable, and a proparoxytone...
- as the
English words "cinema" and "operational".
Related concepts are
paroxytone (stress on the
penultimate syllable) and
oxytone (stress on the last syllable)...
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Placement of
accent Antepenult Penult Ultima Type of
accent Cir****flex —
properispomenon perispomenon Acute proparoxytone paroxytone oxytone Any
barytone —...
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Welsh and Polish,
stress is
always on the penult.
Acute accent Oxytone Paroxytone Proparoxytone Ultima (linguistics)
Stress (linguistics)
Welsh Archived...
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length of the
vowel in the ultima.
Pitch accent Acute accent Oxytone,
paroxytone,
proparoxytone Cir****flex Perispomenon,
properispomenon Grave accent Barytone...
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infix can also be
found for the word azúcar, due to its
unusual form as a
paroxytone word with a
final /r/,
giving azuquítar.
Arabic uses a
common infix, ⟨t⟩...
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devoicing in the
article on
Polish phonology. Most
Polish words are
paroxytones (that is, the
stress falls on the second-to-last
syllable of a polysyllabic...
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Oxytone (ὀξύτονος):
acute on the
final syllable (e.g. πατήρ 'father')
Paroxytone (παροξύτονος):
acute on the
penultimate (e.g. μήτηρ 'mother') Proparoxytone...
- equilibrium.
Syllables are
enumerated with
respect to a
verse which ends with a
paroxytone, so that a
Septenary (having
seven syllables) is
defined as a
verse whose...
