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is a tendency to put the tonic accent on the second vowel.
| scéal | féaċ | béal |
| bréag | Séamas | |
| Éaḋmonn (Éamon); often pronounced yamon. | ||
In déag; and céad the stress on the second vowel is very marked.
(c) When grammatical inflections are added the sound usually = é—e.g., méar (= mí-ear), but méaranna (= mé-ranna), also spelled méireanna féadfaḋ (= fé-taċ), &c.
106. Ae = é preceded by a broad consonant; as the e in this digraph is always long it is unnecessary to write a síneaḋ on it.
| lae | traen | Gaeḋeal |
| laeṫe | Gaeḋilig(e) (C.) | Gaeluinn (M.) |
| Gaeḋealaċ (Gaoḋalaċ) | aer (broad r) | |
EI.
107. In Modern Irish the vowel e occurs only at the end of words—e.g., baile, mé, lile, seamróige, &c.: in all other positions the digraph éi is used instead of é, and ei instead of e. The normal sounds of éi and ei are exactly those of é and e respectively (§12, c, d, e).
When ei (stressed) is followed by ḋ, ġ, ḃ, + a vowel or liquid; or by a protected liquid the diphthong
