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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Luca Mangiat</b>
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Hi, Mark!

<p>It's quite a lot I don't post on the message (I posted once or twice in the
very old times, about a year ago). I've always been interested in Almea,
though.

<p>I was wondering: how did it happen that Cadhinor _raedhan_ (dat.
of_raedhos_, supposedly stressed on the first syllable) became _redh&aacute;n_ in
Verdurian, while _aestan_ became _estan_? Was it already stressed in
Cadhinor?

<p>You wrote in the Cadhinor Grammar (from Languages of Almea):

<p>&lt;&lt;In general the accent falls on the second-to-last vowel or diphthong:
ag&eacute;lla, mel&aacute;stes, thim&eacute;lis, et&aacute;ldas, enkh&aacute;trie, s&aacute;duas, alad&eacute;ia.  However,
if the last two syllables have the pattern CVCV(s), the tendency is to
accent the antepenult: l&eacute;rete, C&aacute;dhinas, v&aacute;dhora, r&uacute;gites, l&aacute;banis.&gt;&gt;

<p>You do not speak, anyway, about final stress.

<p>Thank you in advance for your reply,

<p>Luca


<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>The best I can come up with is that it's an analogical change,
allowing all the inflections in the singular to be stressed.  (The only
other one in that declension is the genitive -ei.)  

<p>On the metalinguistic level, I had that accented dative long before
I'd worked out the Cadhinor inflections.  I could have explained it
by inserting an extra vowel in the Cadhinor, but I was trying to make
the system more regular as you go back in time.  So I left a few
oddities in Verdurian.  (Another is the uniformity of the plural
nominative... I really should have <i>baradhui</i> 'brothers' instead
of <i>baradh&icirc;</i>.  But I'm stuck with it.)

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