oxytone

ox·y·tone

(ŏk′sĭ-tōn′)

adj.

1. Relating to or being a Greek word that has an acute accent on its last syllable.

2. Relating to or being a word that has a heavy stress accent on its last syllable.

A word having the stress or the acute accent on the last syllable.

[Greek oxutonos : oxus, sharp; see ak- in Indo-European roots + tonos, tone; see tone.]

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oxytone

(ˈɒksɪˌtəʊn)

adj

(Phonetics & Phonology) (of a word) having an accent on the final syllable

(Phonetics & Phonology) an oxytone word

[C18: from Greek oxytonos, from oxus sharp + tonos tone]

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ox•y•tone

(ˈɒk sɪˌtoʊn)
adj.

1. (of a word in Classical Greek) having an acute accent on the last syllable.

2. an oxytone word.

[1755–65; < Greek oxýtonos sharp-toned. See oxy-¹, tone]

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oxytone - word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable

word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"

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306) proceeds to argue that oxytone accentuation was original to these stems, and that the tendency towards initial accent is part of a broader pattern of innovated accentuation among the Vedic i-stems (citing examples such as cakri-: acakri-: jaghni-; nijaghni-: sthuri-, asthuri, etc., in which the compound form may have preserved the older oxytone accentuation).

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On names based on oxytone stem-words, the hypocoristic name may have the accent shifted to a preceding syllable: e.g., [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], shortened from [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]; compare the adjective [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].

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Both [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] and [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] are clearly alternative forms (as [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] and [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]), with the oxytone becoming increasingly frequent in the course of time.

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The "thematic" type, on the other hand, seems to have originally been oxytone, the exceptions being two instances, usinarani- and purukutsani-, where the derivative imitates the accent of its basis, and one further case, mudgalani-, (15) where the accent is paroxytone just as in the "athematics."

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Those who connected mene, tene and sene with the verbs and other lexical classes containing the augment syllable -ne, saw the connection in the fact that all the relevant forms were vowel-final oxytones. The specific forms discussed in this context included verbs like fane 'fa', vane 'va', puone 'puo' and saline 'sali', found already in Dante (Parodi, 116); and central and southern Italo-Romance verbs, adverbs, nouns, numerals and non-personal pronouns like piune 'piu', dine 'di', none 'non', quine 'qui', purcene 'perche', piene 'pie', trene 'tre', cosine 'cosi' and pensone 'penso' (more examples are cited in Rohlfs, Grammatica, 468-469).

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(5.) Here and in what follows, I use a simplified IPA transcription, with s c g instead of [??] t[??] dz, CC instead of C:, and V instead of V (stress is marked only on oxytones and proparoxytones).