Triparic Accent
Accent Rules
- If a syllable is marked acute or grave, it gets the accent.
- If a word has only two syllables, the penultimate is accented.
- If the penultimate syllable is heavy, it gets the accent.
- 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:
- It contains a diphthong, which in Triparik means one of: ä, æ, ø, ŏ.
- 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.