sus'pect vs 'suspect and the such

Hi

That's interesting. I don't know of a name for them or a list of them. They seem to be from Latin, with a prefix, and the stress is on the first syllable if it is a noun and on the second syllable if it is a verb ...

- He is a suspect
- We suspect him of murder

- What is that object?
- I object to that

- It is the subject of the sentence
- We su

I wonder if their Latin versions also have stress shift.

The ones you have mentioned also have the same ending. Maybe hier is der Hund begraben.

Haha! - you will have to explain that to me: here is buried the dog. Is that a saying? Does it mean that there is an explanation that we haven't uncovered?

Dave

It means "that's the point". Yes, it made me raise my brows one day, too

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or, more precisely, it is probably w

iasadihsus'pect vs 'suspect and the such the like
Is there a name for the group of words which as different parts of speech arre differently stressed? I wonder how to find a list of them o n the net.

There's no special name.

Here's a start.

CJ

Thanks, Iasadih. Best regards

Dave

And thanks to CJ for the list. As he shows, it is not just words ending in -ect

I liked 'record' which seems to mean, literally, 'to place in the heart'

Dave