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Is bestow a second syllable word?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The accent or stress is on the second syllable.

The 'be' is a prefix as in behead, bequest, bedeck, bedazzle, bedew, bewail, befriend, berate. The root word is NOT 'best' with a suffix '-ow'.

The 'be-' prefix conveys the sense of surrounding, covering, affecting completely, or causing to be. The part of the word after the prefix is stressed because that is the root word and conveys the information.

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