Word evolution game

[foxcatdog]

Oh boy we've gone from the most holy goddess of the race in question and also creator of said race to a demon.

Anyways *j > *z postvocalically

['na.zan.tsai]
nazansii
"sun dragon demonness"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

A vowel followed by a coda nasal becomes a nasalised long vowel that drags stress if the stressed syllable in the word is light:

[na'zãː.tsai]
nazántsai
"lindworm, evil dragon"

[foxcatdog]

*ts > *t

[na'zãː.tai]
nazántai
"lindworm, evil dragon"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Diphthong smoothing:

[na'zãː.taː]
nazántá
"lindworm, evil dragon"

[linguistcat]

Low nasal vowels raise before losing nasalization:

[na'zeː.taː]
nazántá
"lindworm, evil dragon"

[Man in Space]

Intervocalic stop loss

[na'zeː.aː]
nazántá
"lindworm, evil dragon; plumbing snake tool"

[Man in Space]

Oh boy we've gone from the most holy goddess of the race in question and also creator of said race to a demon.

Not without precedent—look at the Hindu devas vs. the…whatever they are in Zoroastrianism.

[foxcatdog]

Hiatus resolution

[na'zeː.jaː]
nazántá
"lindworm, evil dragon; plumbing snake tool"

True but i imagine this group is overtly heretical given that the goddess in question is real.

[Man in Space]

Initial nasals are lost

[a'zeː.jaː]
nazántá
"lindworm, evil dragon; plumbing snake tool"

[foxcatdog]

Final long vowels shorten

[a'zeː.ja]
nazántá
"lindworm, evil dragon; plumbing snake tool"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Rhotacism:

[a'ʀeː.ja]
aréya
"plumbing snake tool"

[foxcatdog]

*j > *dz

[a'ʀeː.dza]
aréya
"plumbing snake tool"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[eː] > [ia]

[a'ʀia.dza]
ariadza
"plumbing snake tool; anything long and sinuous"

[Travis B.]

[i] before a vowel coalesces with preceding uvulars turning them into velars.

[a'ɣa.dza]
ariadza
"plumbing snake tool; anything long and sinuous"

[Man in Space]

Intervocalic velar fricatives coalesce with the vowels

['a:.dza]
ariadza
"plumbing snake tool; anything long and sinuous"

[foxcatdog]

*dz . *d

['a:.da]
aada
"plumbing snake tool; anything long and sinuous"

Also new word from the colloquial register of the lower classes this time.

['pɔ.ʃi]
pośi
“dog”

[Man in Space]

Fronting of back vowels before coronals

['pœ.ʃi]
pośi
“dog”

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Unstressed [i] > [ɘ] after coronals and sibilants.

['pœ.ʃɘ]
pöşy
“dog”

[Travis B.]

Disproportionation of rounded front vowels to unrounded front-rounded back diphthongs

['pɛɔ.ʃɘ]
pöşy
“dog”

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Loss of unstressed [ɘ] with compensatory lengthening:

['pɛːɔ̯ʃ]
pöşy
“dog”