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Grzmot? How about surnames? Jóźwiak -> yoo-ZHVI-ak or YOOZH-vi-ak?

• piotrke 3y ago
  Hehe! A good one!
• oneshtein 3y ago
  YOOZH-viak grzmOt
  • jjtheblunt 3y ago
    oh 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.