[Mesorah] An excessive Nasog Achor?

[Danny Levy]

Usually in Nasog Achor the stress retreats from the final syllable to the
penultimate syllable due to the adjacent stress on the first syllable of
the following word.
If the penultimate syllable has a chataf vowel, which cannot be stressed,
or even if the chataf has changed to a non-chataf short vowel due to a
following shva, the stress retreats further to the previous syllable, for
example NE'ermu MAyim in Shirat Hayam, and YA'arfu TAL (Deut 33:28).

In Ps 69:15 there is a rare case of Nasog Achor in which the stress has
retreated three syllables: umiMA'amakei MAyim.
Why is this?  Why does the stress not retreat just to the penultimate
syllable, umima'aMAkei MAyim?

Danny Levy
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