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Carl Edlund Anderson wrote: >I think the syllabification might be seen as /al-bi-on-es/ and >/al-bi-on-i:-ka:/, and my instinct is to want to put the strongest >accent on the -on- in both cases, but despite puzzling over what I've >seen for the rules of Latin stress patterns (heavens only know what >Gaulish or Celtiberian stress patterns are; I think I'd better imagine >that my Albiones acquire Vulgar Latin style accent, regardless of what >they started with!), I'm not sure how to parse this. And I could have >the syllabification wrong. Well, as vowels in hiatus were rather rare I'd probably syllabify it as /al.'bjo.ni:.ka:/, with stress on the antepenultimate. Primary stress generally fell on the antepenult when possible in Gaulish, as is shown by several French place-names. Linguists are pretty divided on the issue, though, some saying that stress followed similar rules to Latin or that it regularly fell on the penult; so do as you will. Dan