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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:

eŭ vin, ‘I come;’ el vine, ‘he comes;’ vină, ‘come.’

i.

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

mormînt,	‘grave;’	morminte,	‘graves.’
sfînt,	‘saint;’	sfințĭ,	‘saints.’
cuvînt,	‘word;’	cuvinte,	‘words.’
tînĕr,	‘youth;’	tinerĭ,	‘youths.’
eŭ vînd,	‘I sell;’	tu vinḑĭ, el vinḑe, etc.

o.

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

joc,	‘play;’	jucărie,	‘toy.’
eŭ port,	‘I wear;’	eŭ purtam,	‘I wore.’
eŭ rog,	‘I pray;’	eŭ rugam,	‘I prayed.’
rugăciune, ‘prayer.’
eŭ sbor,	‘I fly.’	eŭ sburam,	‘I flew.’

etc.

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.

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