Word evolution game

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Vowel backing after retroflexes

[ˈɕiá.ɻɑ]
shiája
"cat; (literary or dialectal) marten, marten-like animal, also applied to weasels, stoats, and ferrets"

[foxcatdog]

Lateralisation

[ˈʎ̝̊iá.ɭɑ]
shiája
"cat; (literary or dialectal) marten, marten-like animal, also applied to weasels, stoats, and ferrets"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɑ] > [ɔ]

[ˈʎ̝̊iá.ɭɔ]
shiája

[Travis B.]

The standard shifts to a variety that never underwent lateralization of voiceless sibilants.

[ˈɕiá.ɭɔ]
shiája
"cat; (literary or dialectal) marten, marten-like animal, also applied to weasels, stoats, and ferrets"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɭ] > [ɖ]

[ˈɕiá.ɖɔ]
shiája
"cat; (literary or dialectal) marten, marten-like animal, also applied to weasels, stoats, and ferrets"

[Travis B.]

[ɖ] > [ɻd]

[ˈɕiáɻ.dɔ]
shiája
"cat; (literary or dialectal) marten, marten-like animal, also applied to weasels, stoats, and ferrets"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Epinthesis

[ˈɕiá.ɻa.dɔ]
shiárado
"cat; (literary or dialectal) marten, marten-like animal, also applied to weasels, stoats, and ferrets"

[foxcatdog]

*ɕ > *h in stressed syllables or its allophone *ç before front vowels
[ˈçiá.ɻa.dɔ]
hiárado
"cat; (literary or dialectal) marten, marten-like animal, also applied to weasels, stoats, and ferrets"

[Travis B.]

[a] > [ɑ] adjacent to [ɻ] (but [ia] is treated as a distinct diphthong so is not affected).

[ˈçiá.ɻɑ.dɔ]
hiárado
"cat; (literary or dialectal) marten, marten-like animal, also applied to weasels, stoats, and ferrets"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Weakening of unstressed terminal vowels:

[ˈçiá.ɻɑ.də]
hiárade
"cat; (literary or dialectal) marten, marten-like animal, also applied to weasels, stoats, and ferrets"

[Travis B.]

Lenition of intervocalic voiced stops.

[ˈçiá.ɻɑ.ðə]
hiárade
"cat; (literary or dialectal) marten, marten-like animal, also applied to weasels, stoats, and ferrets"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɻ] > [ɾ]

[ˈçiá.ɾɑ.ðə]
hiárade
"cat"

[foxcatdog]

[ð] > [ll]

[ˈçiá.ɾɑ.llə]
hiáralle
"dog (archaic, literary or dialectal) cat"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Geminates shift to close preceding open syllables:

[ˈçiá.ɾɑl.lə]
hiáralle
"dog; (archaic, literary or dialectal) cat"

(Interesting semantic drift going on.)

[Travis B.]

Coda [l] > [w]

[ˈçiá.ɾɑw.lə]
hiáralle
"small, annoying, yipping dog; (archaic, literary or dialectal) cat"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Shift in stress to the last heavy syllable in the word with loss of pitch accent.

[çia'ɾɑw.lə]
hiaráule
"a breed of small dog, usually resembling a Shih-tzu or Pomeranian; any sort of small annoying yipping dog; (archaic, literary or dialectal) cat"

[Travis B.]

Fortition in the onset of stressed or initial syllables.

[cçia'rɑw.lə]
hiaráule
"a breed of small dog, usually resembling a Shih-tzu or Pomeranian; any sort of small annoying yipping dog; (archaic, literary or dialectal) cat"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Loss of schwa with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel

[cçia'rɑːwl]
hiaráule
"a breed of small dog, usually resembling a Shih-tzu or Pomeranian; any sort of small annoying yipping dog; (archaic, literary or dialectal) cat"

[Zju]

Epenthesis:

[icçia'rɑːwl]
ihhiaráule
"a breed of small dog, usually resembling a Shih-tzu or Pomeranian; any sort of small annoying yipping dog; neighbours' annoying pet"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Further fortition (also minor changes of transcription):

[ic.cia'rɑːul]
icciarául
"a breed of small dog, usually resembling a Shih-tzu or Pomeranian; any sort of small annoying yipping dog; neighbours' annoying pet"