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Metathesis (/ m ə ˈ t æ θ ə s ɪ s / mə-TATH-ə-siss; from Greek μετάθεσις, from μετατίθημι "to put in a different order"; Latin: transpositio) is the transposition of sounds or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence.
In the IE branches other than Anatolian and Tocharian, thorn clusters undergo metathesis, and in many, the dental also assibilates. For example, for the noun *dʰéǵʰ-ōm , genitive *dʰǵʰ-m-és , Hittite has tēkan , tagnās , dagān and Tocharian A tkaṃ , tkan- , but these forms appear in Sanskrit kṣā́ḥ and Ancient Greek as khthṓn .
In historical linguistics, a sound change is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature value) by a different one (called phonetic change) or a more general change to the speech sounds that exist (phonological change), such as the merger of two sounds or the creation of a new sound.
A phonological rule is a formal way of expressing a systematic phonological or morphophonological process in linguistics.Phonological rules are commonly used in generative phonology as a notation to capture sound-related operations and computations the human brain performs when producing or comprehending spoken language.
Metathesis is the shift of the position of the first vowel of the word. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It occurs when the unconjugated verb or unsuffixed noun begins with CCVC, where C is an ungeminated consonant and V is a short vowel.
Metathesis in the other direction occasionally occurs before ht, e.g. wrohte "worked" (cf. obsolescent wrought; Gothic wurhta), Northumbrian breht ~ bryht "bright" (Gothic baírhts), fryhto "fright" (Gothic faúrhtei), wryhta "maker" (cf. wright; Old Saxon wurhtio). Unmetathesized forms of all of these words also occur in Old English.
In Māori's case metathesis switches adjacent vowels, consonants or syllables; in addition to that there exists a rare type of metathesis that involves sound features instead of segments: in tenga ~ kenakena ('Adam's apple') the consonants' place of articulation changes while retaining nasality; in inohi ~ unahi ('scales') the subject of ...
It struck me also that the pronunciation "julary" is the result of an analogy that likens the word to the many English words that end in -ary or -ery, rather than the result of spelling. -- IHCOYC 15:20 27 Jul 2003 (UTC) Definitely. Metathesis is very frequently associated with analogy to other words. --Tb 20:43 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)