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Vowel Combinations.

When vowels are put together, they combine in specific ways.

1.      When identical variable nouns come into contact, they contract to form just one long version of the vowel: a + a = â, i + i = î, u + u = û.

2.     When a short a is combined with the following short i or u, the results become ê or ô: ai = ê, au = ô.

3.     Save for [âi], [âu], [ôi], [êu], a short vowel combined to a long vowel will result in the disappearance of the short vowel, leaving only the long vowel in place^[1].

     Table of Vowel Combinations

[1].  [êi] and [ôu] are also possible combinations, but they are usually reduced to just the long vowels in Classical Adûnaic, which is the main form followed in the Lexicon.