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