meet-meat merger
meet-meat merger · meet-meat mergers
The phonemic merger of the Early Modern English vowel /eː/ as in Middle English "meat"…The phonemic merger of the Early Modern English vowel /eː/ as in Middle English "meat" into the vowel /iː/ as in Middle English "meet".
Meaning
1 sensesThe phonemic merger of the Early Modern English vowel /eː/ as in Middle English "meat" into the vowel /iː/ as in Middle English "meet".
Forms
plural: meet-meat mergers| Singular | meet-meat merger |
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regular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.