 In the East, Italian has > , as in > "otto" ("eight") or > "notte" ("night"); while Romanian has > ("opt", "noapte").By contrast, in the West, the weakened to .In French and Portuguese, this came to form a diphthong with the previous vowel ("huit", "oito"; "nuit", "noite"), while in Spanish, the brought about palatalization of , which produced ("*oito" > "ocho", "*noite" > "noche").