It's fairly common to find
metathesis between Romance languages, as in Spanish preguntar and Portuguese perguntar (to ask), Spanish perjuicio and Portuguese prejuízo (damage), but yesterday I ran into one in two Slavic languages: Czech plukovník and Poslih pułkownik (colonel). This was the first one I've found but I'm sure there must be others, it was just that I haven't been looking. I'm also trying to think of similar cases in Germanic languages, but I can't think of anything right now.
English: carp
ReplyDeleteGerman: Karpfen
Russian: карп
Polish: karp
Czech: kapr