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[foxcatdog]

Loss of posttonic unstressed vowels

時計り
to₂ko₂pakari
[t̪ʰɵ́kʰ.pʰɑ́kʰ.ɾ̪ì]
"timepiece, clock"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Resyllabificattion with compensatory lengthening

時計り
to₂kpakri
[t̪ʰɵ́kʰ.pʰɑ́ː.kʰɾ̪ì]
"timepiece, clock"

[Travis B.]

Frication of coda aspirated stops.

時計り
to₂kpakri
[t̪ʰɵ́x.pʰɑ́ː.kʰɾ̪ì]
"timepiece, clock"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[x] > [w] after back vowels

時計り
to₂wpakri
[t̪ʰɵ́w.pʰɑ́ː.kʰɾ̪ì]
"timepiece, clock"

[Travis B.]

[ɵw] > [oː]

時計り
to₂wpakri
[t̪ʰóː.pʰɑ́ː.kʰɾ̪ì]
"timepiece, clock"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[kʰɾ̪] > [ʁ]

時計り
tōpāhri
[t̪ʰóː.pʰɑ́ː.ʁì]
"timepiece, clock"

[foxcatdog]

Dipthongisation

時計り
tōpāhri
[t̪ʰúá.pʰɑ́ː.ʁì]
"timepiece, clock"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɑː] > [ɔᵝː]

時計り
tōpāhri
[t̪ʰúá.pʰɔ́ᵝː.ʁì]
"timepiece, clock"

[foxcatdog]

Frication

時計り
tōpāhri
[θúá.ɸɔ́ᵝː.ʁì]
"timepiece, clock"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ua] > [woᵝː]

時計り
thōphāhri
[θwóᵝː.ɸɔ́ᵝː.ʁì]
"timepiece, clock"

[foxcatdog]

[a.ma.ᵐbu.ⁿden]
amabuden
“solar goddess”

[Travis B.]

Prenasalized stops become implosives.

[a.ma.ɓu.ɗen]
amabuden
“false idol” (from the point of view of the monotheistic cult of the Earth diety)

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Development of a strong tendency towards penultimate stress:

[a.ma'ɓu.ɗen]
amabuden
“false idol” (from the point of view of the monotheistic cult of the Earth diety)

[Travis B.]

Unstressed intervocalic [m] > [β̃]

[a.β̃a'ɓu.ɗen]
amabuden
“false idol” (from the point of view of the monotheistic cult of the Earth diety)

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Weakening of pretonic and post-tonic undstressed vowels:

[a.β̃ə'ɓu.ɗən]
amabuden
“false idol”

[Travis B.]

[β̃] > [w̃]

[a.w̃ə'ɓu.ɗən]
amabuden
“false idol”

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Collapse of vowel-semivowel-vowel sequences, here [a.w̃ə] > [ãʊ̃]:

[ãʊ̃'ɓu.ɗən]
amabuden
“object of adoration; (old-fashioned) false idol”

[Travis B.]

[ãʊ̃] > [ɑ̃ɔ̯̃], along with [aʊ] > [ɑɔ̯]

[ɑ̃ɔ̯̃'ɓu.ɗən]
amabuden
In the iconolatrist cult, “object of adoration", in the iconoclast cult, "demonic image".

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Lengthening of vowels in open, stressed syllables:

[ɑ̃ɔ̯̃'ɓuː.ɗən]
amabuden
In the iconolatrist cult, “object of adoration", in the iconoclast cult, "demonic image".

[Travis B.]

[ɓ] > [ʙ]

[ɑ̃ɔ̯̃'ʙuː.ɗən]
amabuden
In the iconolatrist cult, “object of adoration", in the iconoclast cult, "demonic image".