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 penultimate) is accented.
   • Therefore, any 2-syllable word accented on the final syllable must get a grave on it.
3. The source rule. For words of more than two syllables, it depends on the origin. If a word is of Germanic origin, it follows the Germanic accent rules; if it is of Romance origin, it follows the Romance accent rules.

Germanic Rules

1. First syllable. The first syllable of the root is accented.

Romance Rules

1. If the penultimate syllable is heavy, it gets the accent.
2. Otherwise, the antepenultimate (third-from-last) syllable gets the accent.

Examples

machisto has a heavy penultimate syllable and no explicit mark; therefore, the accent is ma-CHIS-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

machisto.

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

Accent votes for exemplar polysyllables

Word	Carrie	Shawn	Alan
ascheten	1, maybe 2	2, maybe 1
civilan	3	1, mmmmaybe 3
chocolad	3	3, maybe 1
diziren	2	2	2
febessen	2	2	2
kübernen	1	1 or 2
machisto	2	2	2
ŏssagen	1?	2	1?
passenstanz	1	1
vidoncor	3 I guess	2