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4 Note.—There is one case in which e changes into i, viz. in the verb a veni, ‘to come,’ where e becomes i whenever the accent is upon it:

i becomes î long in the singulars of some nouns, and in the root syllable of certain persons of the verbs:

Sometimes o is changed into u when the syllable in which it stands becomes unaccented:

More important than any of the foregoing modifications of sounds are those of e and o into the diphthongs é (ea), ó (oa), in which the stress falls on the a.

e changes into é (ea) generally when it is accented in a