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...

Some diacritics, such as the acute ⟨ó⟩, grave ⟨ò⟩, and circumflex ⟨ô⟩ (all shown above an 'o'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above...

ATR or soft vowel /ɵ/ as in "tór" [t̶ɵr̶] 'background' In Dutch, the acute Ó accent is used to mark different meanings for words, for example voor and vóór...

serang (without the acute) means "to attack," whereas Sérang (with the acute) is the provincial capital of Banten. In Irish the acute accent (fada) marks a...

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...

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...

(tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Ancient Greek and Medieval Greek and includes: acute accent (´) circumflex accent (ˆ) grave accent (`); these...

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...

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...

tones, often described as pitch accents, or tonal word accents. They are called acute and grave accent, accent 1 and accent 2. The actual realization of...

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...

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)...

used as matching pairs of open and close quotes, and also as grave and acute accents, and allowed the apostrophe to be used as a prime. None of these were...

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...

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

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/...

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:...

written as a digraph, an acute accent is put on both parts of the digraph. Although that rule includes ⟨ij⟩, the acute accent on the ⟨j⟩ is frequently omitted...

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...

The acute accent has some other functions. Sometimes it shows that adjacent vowels represent separate syllables rather than a diphthong. Acute accents are...

AltGr+;(release)letter produces acute accents (e.g., ź/Ź) AltGr+⇧ Shift+;(release)letter produces double acute accents on some letters (e.g., Ő/ő) that...

U+02C8 ˈ MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE Stress accent or dynamic accent. U+02CA ˊ MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT U+02EE ˮ MODIFIER LETTER DOUBLE APOSTROPHE...

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

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...

the acute accent, with multiple foundation characters (such as á, é, í, ó, ú) the decision was made to create a new character, the acute accent or diacritic...

the polytonic orthography and modern Greek keeping only the stress accent (acute) and the diaeresis. Apart from its use in writing the Greek language...

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...

based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel...

imported from other languages. The two dots accent (diaeresis or umlaut), the grave accent, and the acute accent are the only diacritics native to Modern...