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Definition of Accentless
1. a. Without accent.
Definition of Accentless
1. Adjective. Speaking without an accent. ¹
2. Adjective. Of a word, having no diacritical mark; unaccented. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Accentless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accentless
Literary usage of Accentless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney, Charles Rockwell Lanman (1904)
"of the accentless asya ; Weber notices the wild incongruity (absent in the TA.
version) between asya in a, te in b, ..."
2. A Grammar of the German Language by Georg Heinrich Noehden (1830)
"Nor can they possibly be accentless; because it is necessary to pronounce them
... The prefix (Jf, in the preterite participles, is accentless, and entirely ..."
3. A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language, Arranged with Reference to the by Monier Monier-Williams (1864)
"... while he explains the neutral accentless tone by the term eka-sruti (called
... accentless or monotonous tone represented by the flat horizontal line. ..."
4. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1849)
"As a result of the regular vocalic contraction pointed out above (6) and the
sporadic loss of an accentless syllable, a considerable number of Indonesian ..."
5. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1896)
"The briefer second forms for accus., dat., and gen., in all numbers, are accentless;
and hence they are not allowed to stand at the beginning of a sentence, ..."
6. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"In accentless occurrences o'y- is reduced to e- or o-. The latter is from o'y-
by loss of y and shortening of the vowel. The former requires a start from ..."
7. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"In accentless occurrences o'y- is reduced to e- or o-. The latter is from o'y-
by loss of y and shortening of the vowel. The former requires a start from ..."
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