metathesis

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metathesis

Summary

metathesis is a sound change[1]. metathesis ranks in the top 9% of sound_change entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (281 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • metathesis's image is recorded as Quaestiones de adjectivis Graecis, quae dicuntur, verbalibus (microform) (IA 4737990).pdf[3].
  • metathesis's instance of is recorded as sound change[4].
  • metathesis's GND ID is recorded as 4169657-8[5].
  • metathesis's subclass of is recorded as process[6].
  • metathesis's subclass of is recorded as derivation[7].
  • metathesis's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/017xlb[8].
  • metathesis's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9].
  • metathesis's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[10].
  • metathesis's different from is recorded as inversion[11].
  • metathesis's studied by is recorded as phonetics[12].
  • metathesis's studied by is recorded as linguistics[13].
  • metathesis's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as metathesis[14].
  • metathesis's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as metatese[15].
  • metathesis's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 153914509[16].
  • metathesis's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C153914509[17].
  • metathesis's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as metateza-5836f1[18].

Why It Matters

metathesis ranks in the top 9% of sound_change entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (281 views/month).[2] metathesis has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] metathesis is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_metathesis_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{metathesis}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/metathesis}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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