Re: Romanian Stress Rules (was: etyma for Craciun...)

On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 01:31 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> What are these synchronic rules? After restoring the final -u on
> words ending in a consonant, the stress in a simple word should fall
> on the penultimate or antepenultimate syllable in Latin. Many
> (all?) suffixes have an associated stress placement. Are finer
> details of the Latin accentual system preserved, albeit in modified
> form?

AFAIK, Romanian by and large observes those Latin
stress patterns (IMHO even exaggerating on preferring
the stress on syllables that, diachronically seen,
are penultimate; somewhat closer to French than
Italian habits in this respect [well, my own sub-
jective empiric perception]).

George