Category:Ancient Greek terms showing quantitative metathesis

This category contains Ancient Greek terms that display the sound change of quantitative metathesis, in which two adjacent vowels switch their vowel lengths. This sound change occurred in the Attic dialect and sometimes in Ionic as well.

For example, the long vowel and the short vowel  in the original (Ionic) form become the short vowel  and the long vowel  in the Attic form:
 * &rarr; "of a king"