- Look up
oxytone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, an
oxytone (/ˈɒksɪtoʊn/; from the
Ancient Gr****: ὀξύτονος, oxýtonos, 'sharp-sounding'[citation...
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exceptions stated below,
Turkish words are
oxytone (accented on the last syllable). Place-names are not
oxytone: Anádolu (Anatolia), İstánbul. Most place...
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recessive accent, but
there are a few
oxytones, and a very few with an
accent in
between (neither
recessive nor
oxytone) or contracted: ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos...
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Placement of
accent Antepenult Penult Ultima Type of
accent Cir****flex —
properispomenon perispomenon Acute proparoxytone paroxytone oxytone Any
barytone —...
- website, such as that of the BBC) has been
taking place.
Words are
usually oxytones (i.e. the last
syllable is stressed), but
certain endings and suffixal...
- hypoxia, monoxide, oxide, oxyanion, oxygen, oxyhalide, oxymoron, oxyntic,
oxytone, paroxysm, pentoxide, polyoxide, tetraoxygen, tetroxide,
trioxide oz- smell...
- microtone, monotone, monotonic, monotonous, monotony, neoteny, octatonic,
oxytone, paroxytone, pentatonic, peritoneum, polytonic, proparoxytone, protasis...
- such as
Welsh and Polish,
stress is
always on the penult.
Acute accent Oxytone Paroxytone Proparoxytone Ultima (linguistics)
Stress (linguistics) Welsh...
- are clear. As a
general rule,
nouns that had the
accent on the
ending ("
oxytones")
became mobile,
while those that had
accent on the root ("barytones")...
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dependent on the
length of the
vowel in the ultima.
Pitch accent Acute accent Oxytone, paroxytone,
proparoxytone Cir****flex Perispomenon,
properispomenon Grave...
