Greek, a stress accent has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word. The Greek name of the accented syllable was and...

The double acute accent (◌̋) is a diacritic mark of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is used primarily in Hungarian or Chuvash, and consequently it is...

28th letter of the Slovak alphabet. It represents /oː/. In Dutch, the acute Ó accent is used to mark different meanings for words, for example voor and vóór...

/ə/. In Irish the acute accent (fada) marks a long vowel and so é is pronounced /eː/. É is a variant of E carrying an acute accent; it represents an /e/...

Some diacritics, such as the acute ⟨á⟩, grave ⟨à⟩, and circumflex ⟨â⟩ (all shown above an 'a'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above...

syllable as the pitch accent in ancient Greek. The ancient Greek grammarians indicated the word-accent with three diacritic signs: the acute (ά), the circumflex...

(tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Ancient Greek and Medieval Greek. The acute accent (´), the circumflex (ˆ), and the grave accent (`) indicate...

indicating stress on a final (short) vowel is through the use of the acute accent. The acute accent on a is often found in verbal nouns and borrowed words, for...

use different diacritics, with modern Greek keeping only the stress accent (acute) and the diaeresis. Apart from its use in writing the Greek language...

ˀ will be used in this article. In Proto-Balto-Slavic, the acute was independent of accent position, and could appear on any "long" syllable, which included:...

letter "i" with an accent. It is used to denote an "i" syllable with abnormal stress. Í/í is a variant of I carrying an acute accent; it represents an...

The grave accent first appeared in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek to mark a lower pitch than the high pitch of the acute accent. In modern...

letter "u" with an accent. It is used to denote an "u" syllable with unusual stress. Ú/ú is a variant of U carrying an acute accent; it represents an /u/...

acute and grave accents (^), as it marked a syllable contracted from two vowels: an acute-accented vowel and a non-accented vowel (all non-accented syllables...

"raised" (acute accent, high pitch), anudātta अनुदात्त "not raised" (from अ(न्)- (negative prefix) + उदात्त) (unstressed, or low pitch, grave accent) and svarita...

letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of an acute accent. It is used in Polish and Montenegrin alphabets, and in certain other...

all polysyllables are written with an acute accent (´) over the vowel of the stressed syllable. (The acute accent is also used on some monosyllables in...

standard notation in Serbo-Croatian: Acute accent ⟨á⟩: A long rising accent, originating from the Balto-Slavic "acute" accent. This occurred in the Middle Common...

There are two kinds of tonal accent, referred to as the acute and grave accents, but they are also called accent 1 and accent 2 or tone 1 and tone 2. Over...

Greek, the place and the type of accent are dependent on the length of the vowel in the ultima. Pitch accent Acute accent Oxytone, paroxytone, proparoxytone...

could bear a suprasegmental feature known as acute. The acute feature could occur independently of the accent, and Slavic retained this situation until at...

one of two prosodically distinct ways. One way is known as the acute or falling accent: this may be described as "sudden, sharp or rough". In Lithuanian...

letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. The letter appears in Polish, Montenegrin, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian...

introduced for modern Greek. The only diacritics that remain are the acute accent (indicating stress) and the diaeresis (indicating that two consecutive...

The grapheme Ć (minuscule: ć), formed from C with the addition of an acute accent, is used in various languages. It usually denotes [t͡ɕ], the voiceless...

Look up acute in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Acute may refer to: Acute accent, a diacritic used in many modern written languages Acute (phonetic)...

the acute accent is generated by a combination of the Alt+⇧+&, keys, followed by the vowel. In the Belgian AZERTY layout, a vowel with an acute accent can...

double acute may refer to: U with double acute (Cyrillic) (Ӳ, ӳ), a Chuvash letter, regarded as a separate letter from У U with Double acute accent (Ű, ű)...

Ń (minuscule: ń) is a letter formed by putting an acute accent over the letter N. In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet; the alphabets of Apache, Navajo,...

stress-marking acute accent. The diacritic ~ is more commonly called virgulilla or la tilde de la eñe, and is not considered an accent mark in Spanish...