adjective
- relating to or involving metathesis, the transposition of sounds or letters in a word
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The word ‘ask’ becoming ‘aks’ is a metathetic change.
- Metathetic processes are common in language evolution.
- The linguist studied metathetic variations in regional dialects.
- Old English ‘brid’ became ‘bird’ through a metathetic shift.
- Metathetic forms often appear in children’s speech development.
- The researcher documented metathetic patterns across languages.