:As JackofOz suggested, my old classical Greek textbook used " ultima " for the last letter, " penult " for second to last, and " antepenult " for third from last.
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For example, the genitive and vocative singular " Vergil + " ( from " Vergilius " ) is pronounced, with stress on the penult, even though it is short.
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Before " s ", a stressed vowel in the last syllable is long, as mentioned above, but a stressed vowel in the penult is short : " " ( measure ).
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Except for the second form of the first demonstrative pronoun, certain formations involving certain enclitics, polysyllabic ideophones, most compounds, and a handful of other words, there is only one main stress falling on the penult.
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However, even when pronounced as two syllables, "-eus " counts as a single syllable for the purpose of determining vowel length; that is, the syllable preceding the ending is considered the penult.
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In languages accented on one of the last three syllables, the last syllable is called the ultima, the next-to-last is called the penult, and the third syllable from the end is called the antepenult.
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There are plenty of words of more than one syllable, such as laboratory, which have a single stress on the antepenult in Britain : labORatry and a major ( at least secondary ) stress on the penult in American : LABra TOR y.
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Parts of speech are derived from verbs by lengthening ( or perhaps stressing; the description is not clear ) one of the syllables : abstract noun ( 1st syllable ), agent / doer ( 2nd syllable ), adjective ( penult ), adverb ( last syllable ).
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A somewhat different, and possibly more accurate, analysis is to consider the final syllable as extra metric; then the accent always falls on the syllable with the penult metric mora, and there is no need to define a special type of mora counting for the last syllable.
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Consonants can also cluster in particular arrangements up to CCCCC in the word-medial position; word-initial or word-final clusters are limited to CCC . Oneida generally accents on the penultimate syllable, and shares with Mohawk the " PLI rules that & lengthen an accented open penult ".
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