The difference between Metaplasm and Prothesis

When used as nouns, metaplasm means any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds, whereas prothesis means the prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in spanish from latin (expected form would be *).

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  1. Metaplasm as a noun (linguistics):

    Any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds

  2. Metaplasm as a noun (biology):

    A small particle (often nutrient) within a cell

  1. Prothesis as a noun (phonology):

    The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish from Latin (expected form would be *).

  1. Prothesis as a noun:

    a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church

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