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40 We know that é with the accent is equivalent to the diphthong ea, but as é for ea cannot be written at the end of a word, we have— There are many verbs ending in e short which instead of uĭ take eĭ for the simple perfect, and change the last consonant to s; so a merge, ‘to go,’ has not its simple perfect eŭ merguĭ, but— Thus: