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For additional context, Polish words are always pronounced with emphasis on the second-to-last syllable. So `HO-doof`.
by uoaei 3y ago
For additional context, Polish words are always pronounced with emphasis on the second-to-last syllable.
So `HO-doof`.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoGrzmot? How about surnames? Jóźwiak -> yoo-ZHVI-ak or YOOZH-vi-ak?
- piotrke 3y agoHehe! A good one!
- oneshtein 3y agoYOOZH-viak grzmOt
- jjtheblunt 3y agooh interesting point: the slavic y+{a,e,i,o,u} thing turns those surnames ending in consonant+iak into a single syllable, whereas in germanic the y would be a glide, demarcation of a syllable to its left and another to its right?
- hipnoizz 3y ago'grzmot' has just one syllable, right (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grzmot https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grzmot). So yes, you can't stress the penultimate one, as it isn't there. ;-) I think 'Jóźwiak' would be syllabified as 'Jóź-wiak' or 'Jó-źwiak'. I may be wrong, I think we don't have always just one way to syllabify a word in Poland.
- hipnoizz 3y agoOne exception would be words loaned from Greek, like 'matematyka' or 'fizyka'. But I think they are being 'assimilated' so one can say that they do not count anyway. Polish has also a fairly rich system of prefixes and suffixes and I think some of them would result in stressing some other syllable than the second to last (penultimate).