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acuted
† aˈcuted, ppl. a. Obs. [f. prec. + -ed.] Made acute or sharp; marked with the acute accent (cf. circumflexed).1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Acutition, The error of the moderns in pronouncing acuted syllables in the Greek, as long, when they are naturally short.
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unacuted
unaˈcuted, ppl. a. (un-1 8.)1804 Mitford Inquiry 268 Though..Latin..can have a long penultimate following an acuted antepenultimate,..yet..long vowels unacuted are numerous.
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Osthoff's law
Following this, long vowels become acuted, and the long vowels subsequently shorten again due to Osthoff's law, leaving an acuted liquid diphthong.
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Slavic liquid metathesis and pleophony
The complete metathesis has been operational in all Slavic languages for acuted syllables. For word-initial non-acuted syllables, there was no lengthening except in South Slavic and, partially, Slovak.
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acute
▪ I. acute, a. (and n.) (əˈkjuːt) [ad. L. acūt-us pa. pple. of acu-ĕre to sharpen.] A. adj. 1. Sharp at the end, coming to a sharp point, pointed. acute angle, one less than a right angle.1570 Billingsley Euclid i. xi. 3 An acute angle is that, which is lesse then a right angle. 1599 A. M. Gabelhoue...
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Dybo's law
It could then be lengthened again by Van Wijk's law, producing a long non-acuted vowel. Like Dybo's law, it caused a rightward shift of the accent from non-acuted syllables and a split in the original accentual paradigms.
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circumflex
▪ I. circumflex, a. and n. (ˈsɜːkəmflɛks) [As adj., ad. L. circumflex-us bent about, pa. pple. of circumflectĕre; as applied to the accent, it translated Gr. περισπώµεν-ος, lit. ‘drawn around’, in reference to its shape. The n. is partly an absolute use of the adj., partly (senses 2, 3) repr. L. cir...
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Ivšić's law
Čakavian pr̃st, Russian perst, N pl perstý)
Retraction from medial circumflexed syllables
Retraction also occurred on medial long circumflexed (i.e., non-acuted
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Proto-Balto-Slavic language
Fixed paradigm with non-acuted root
In the nouns with non-mobile initial accent, which did not have an acuted root syllable, both Lithuanian and Slavic Later, that acuted syllable was shortened by Leskien's law.
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exile
▪ I. exile, n.1 (ˈɛksaɪl, ˈɛgzaɪl) Also 4 exil, 5–6 exyl(e, exyll(e. [a. OF. exil, refashioned form of essil, state of banishment, also (cf. sense 2) devastation, destruction = Pr. essilh, semi-popular ad. L. exsilium state of banishment, f. ex- out + sal- (= Skr. sar- to go), root of salīre to leap...
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History of Proto-Slavic
When accented, acuted vowels developed a rising intonation, while non-acuted long vowels became falling in pitch. Shortening of acuted accented syllables.
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Proto-Slavic accent
This sound change shifted the accent one syllable rightwards if it previously fell on a non-acuted syllable (whether short or long), and the syllable that apparent; the accent retraction that occurred as part of this law produced the same result on all long syllables, regardless of whether it was originally acuted
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Proto-Slavic language
vowel were resyllabified into a short vowel + sonorant, which also caused the loss of the acute in these forms, because the short vowel could not be acuted The short vowel in turn was subject to Dybo's law, while the original long vowel/diphthong remained acuted and thus resisted the change.
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