Metathesizes vs Metathesized - What's the difference?
metathesizes | metathesized |
(metathesize)
(linguistics) To undergo or to subject to metathesis; of sounds, to switch positions in a word.
*1939, & C. F. Voegelin, A Problem in Phonological Alternation,'' in ''Language, Vol. 15, No. 1
*:Cases like mu·yh'' : ''mu·hyut'' may be accounted for under a rule that clusters of ''h plus sonorant metathesize in word-final position.
*1888, James W. Bright, Thraf-Caik,'' in ''Modern Language Notes, Vol. 3, No. 3
*:The significance of noticing the existence of this adjective tharf'' by the side of the metathesized form ''thraf is of course apparent
*1962, Gene M. Schramm, An Outline of Classical Arabic Verb Structure,'' in ''Language, Vol. 38, No. 4
*:If the first of two identical consonants in sequence is postconsonantal and the second intervocalic, metathesize the first with the following vowel (geminate roots only).