Triparic Accent

Accent Rules

In order of precedence:

1. The marking rule. If a syllable is marked acute or grave, it gets the accent.
2. The disyllable rule. If a word has two syllables, the first syllable (the penult) is accented.
   • Therefore, any 2-syllable word accented on the final syllable must get a grave on it.
3. If the penult syllable is heavy, it gets the accent.
4. Otherwise, the antepenultimate (third-from-last) syllable gets the accent.

Examples

maczisto has a heavy penultimate syllable and no explicit mark; therefore, the accent is ma-CZIS-to.

könig is two-syllable, so it is accented on the penultimate (even though the penultimate, kö-, is light).

ãncivilan has no heavy syllables, so it is accented on the antepenult: ãn-CI-vi-lan.

Syllable Weight Rules

These are lifted straight from Latin.

A syllable is light, unless one of the following conditions are met, in which case it is heavy:

1. It contains a diphthong, which in Triparik means one of: ä, æ, ø, ŏ.
2. Its vowel is placed before more than one consonant.
   • Note that x counts as two consonants (/ks/).
   • Likewise cz and j count as two consonants, since they are affricates and thus "heavy" sounds.
   • A stop-liquid cluster (b, d, g, p, t, or k followed by r or l), by itself, counts as just one consonant.

Examples

maczisto.

• ma- would be heavy, because it's followed by cz.
• - czis- is heavy, because its vowel is followed by a cluster (-st-).
• -to is light.