ABSTRACT
An acute accent is placed over the stressed vowel in any word of more than one syllable, e.g. cwvro~ [xóros] ‘space, place’, corov~ [xorós] ‘dance’. The accent is placed before an initial capital letter representing a stressed vowel (VOmhro~ [ómiros] ‘Homer’), but no accent is written when the word is written entirely in capitals. When a stressed vowel sound is written as two letters, the accent is placed over the second letter: toivco~ [tíxos] ‘wall’. Similarly, in the combinations au and eu (when pronounced [af], [av], [ef] or [ev]), the accent is placed on the second letter, e.g. pauvw [pávo] ‘I stop’. However, when two letters are pronounced as separate vowels, the accent is placed on the first one if that is the stressed vowel, e.g. gavidaro~ [gájdaros] ‘donkey’. When a word is stressed on two syllables as a result of enclisis (see Section 1.8), the accent is written over each of the stressed vowels: o exavdelov~ mou [oeksádelfovzmu] ‘my cousin’.
