![]() Eventually, the sound merged with the Latin monophthong "long e," which eventually became the English vowel sound in me. ![]() That "long i" sound for "ae" didn't stick around. Latin was spoken for a long time, though, and there's nothing a language likes better than change. First a bit of background: the “ae” in these words comes from a Latin diphthong* that linguists believe was pronounced like the English "long i," the vowel sound in my.
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