- last syllable). In English, most
nouns of
three or more
syllables are
proparoxytones,
except in
words ending in –tion or –sion,
which tend to be paroxytones...
- syllable, and a
proparoxytone,
stressed on the
antepenultimate (third-last) syllable.
Barytone Paroxytone Penult Perispomenon Proparoxytone Properispomenon...
- the
penultimate syllable, English-speakers tend to
pronounce it as a
proparoxytone /ˈɛstɪbæn/ EST-ib-an.[citation needed]
Esteban Alvarado,
Costa Rican...
- (Islam) or, in many
sociolects of
Brazilian Portuguese, esdrúxulo (
proparoxytone). In some
Andalusian dialects of Spanish, it
merged with Peninsular...
-
verse "Estuans
intrinsecus || ira vehementi."
Related concepts are
proparoxytone (stress on the
antepenultimate (third-to-last) syllable) and oxytone...
- in
proparoxytone words. E.g. hòmens 'men', jóvens 'youth'.
Eastern Catalan: In
nouns and adjectives, loss of /n/ of
medieval plurals in
proparoxytone words...
-
stress can also fall on the
antepenultimate (third from last)
syllable (
proparoxytones or mots esdrúchols 'slip words').
These were
regarded as
irregular stress...
-
Placement of
accent Antepenult Penult Ultima Type of
accent Cir****flex —
properispomenon perispomenon Acute proparoxytone paroxytone oxytone Any
barytone —...
-
supplementary are
treated as
paroxytones or
stressed on the /a/,
rather than as
proparoxytones or the
preceding syllable, a
hyperforeignism from the Spanish-derived...
- the
Iberic languages and Siculian; for example, the
suffix -ara in
proparoxytones indicated the plural.
Terracini proposed the same for
suffixes in -/àna/...
