Thread:User talk:CodeCat/-ίζειν/reply (8)

Ancient Greek has different accent classes: some accents are fixed, while others are mobile. On top of that, there's a constraint on how many moras from the end a mobile accent can go. I don't know all the details, but that's the general idea. That means that some suffixes will always take the accent, while others may or may not take the accent, depending on the word they're attached to, and how many moras they have with the inflectional morphology factored in. Your suggestion is a good one as far as the fixed accent goes, but with the mobile accent there may be no really reliable answer. Since most editors have no clue about accent classes (and some of us have a clue, but not much else), it would be a good idea to rely solely on the form of the suffix's lemma in deciding whether to mark the accent or not. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:48, 24 March 2013 (UTC)