meet-meat merger

noun

Definitions

  1. 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".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for meet-meat merger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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