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.
The second.
No, the second syllable is stressed. (bih-stoh)
be-stow
The word "survive" has the accent on the second syllable. The stress is on the "vive" part of the word.
For the word, forlorn, the accent is on the second syllable.
The word "surprise" has the second syllable accented (sur-prise).
The second syllable is accented.
The second syllable is unstressed.
The second syllable in the word "syllable" is accented.
The word balance is a unstressed first syllable.
'Accept' is neither a 'first' nor a 'second' syllable word. It is a two syllable word.
The stressed syllable in the word "appoint" is the second syllable, pronounced "a-POINT."