Merit, thus written, is the first person singular of the verb merit, deserve, make merit or mention, as the Dictionary tells us. As it is a grave word, its prosodic accent falls on the penultimate syllable, but it does not have an accent because it ends in a vowel. Another thing would be if we wanted to ask about merit and as is evident, in this case it does have an accent because it is a compass word and we already know that these are accented (orthographically) all the same as the surpasses. It also carries an accent where if we ask a question. How great our language is and how complicated it is for those who do not know it!
