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Q: Historical Linguistics: The stress of nouns ending in "-fono"

Kotoba Trily NgianMost Spanish words from Latin keep their stress location of the Latin form. But I noticed that all nouns ending in -fono like teléfono is stress on the third-to-the-last syllable, while -fono comes from Greek -phōnē via New Latin -phōnum, stressed penultimately. Is there any reason for this uncom...


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