English Explanatory Dictionary

meet-meat merger

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phonemic merger of the Early Modern English vowel /eː/ as in Middle English "meat" into the vowel /iː/ as in Middle English "meet".

Word forms

meet-meat merger
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