Re: USAGE: heuristics for Russian stress?

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 23:35, Alex Fink <000024@...> wrote:
> It's quite likely that there are several rules, or at least of thumb, by
> which most words (or nouns, or verbs... in a certain case, tense, ...) of a
> certain phonetic or orthographic shape, or morphological composition, or
> etymological origin, or so forth, can have their stress predicted.  Aren't
> there?
One that I can think of off the top of my head is that adjectives in
-oy have final stress (since if they didn't, they'd end in -yy
instead).

Though that only helps you in the masculine nominative singular form,
I think; the feminine nominative singular, for example, has ´-aya and
-áya, indistinguishable in writing.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>