Stress and Morpheme Boundaries

Stress

Stress falls on the first syllable of the root.

Affixes do not move stress.

Optional hyphenation

Hyphens may be inserted at genuine morpheme boundaries for clarity.

Hyphenated and unhyphenated forms are equivalent in:

• meaning
• pronunciation
• stress
• grammatical status

Examples:

efttag = eft-tag

wulflik = wulf-lik

timbde = timb-de

mannarens = mann-ar-en-s

Hyphens may not split a morpheme internally.

This makes the same notation useful in ordinary writing, teaching material, and grammatical documentation.