Word evolution game

[foxcatdog]

New word
[aɾ.ba:.nɔ.sa]
atpaanọsa
“Father god”

[Travis B.]

Lenition of all voiced plosives.

[aɾ.βa:.nɔ.sa]
atpaanọsa
“Father god”

[Man in Space]

Rhoticization of intervocalic /n/ with ejection of nasality onto a preceding vowel

[aɾ.βã:.ɾɔ.sa]
atpaanọsa
“Father god”

[Travis B.]

Voicing of intervocalic sibilants.

[aɾ.βã:.ɾɔ.za]
atpaanọsa
“Father god”

[foxcatdog]

nasalisiation
[aɾ.mã:.ɾɔ.za]
atpaanọsa
“Father god”

[Otto Kretschmer]

Final vowel turns into a schwa
[aɾ.mã:.ɾɔ.zə]
atpaanọsa
“Father god”

[Travis B.]

Fortition of onset rhotics.

[aɾ.mã:.rɔ.zə]
atpaanọsa
“Father god”

[Man in Space]

Deletion of unstressed initial vowels with a long vowel in the second syllable. Also, spelling reform.

[ɾmã:.rɔ.zə]
Dmããråza
“Father god”

[Otto Kretschmer]

[m]>[n]
[ɾnã:.rɔ.zə]
Dmããråza
“Father god”

[Travis B.]

[ɾn] > [dn]

[dnã:.rɔ.zə]
Dmããråza
“Father god”

[Otto Kretschmer]

Deletion of the final schwa + orthographic reform
[dnã:.rɔz]
Dnããråz
“Father god”

[Man in Space]

r…[t/d/r/s/z] > Ø…[t/d/r/s/z]

[dnã:.ɔz]
Dnããråz
“Father god”

[Otto Kretschmer]

Loss of vowel length
[dnã.ɔz]
Dnããråz
“God”

[Travis B.]

Final devoicing.

[dnã.ɔs]
Dnããråz
“God”

[Man in Space]

Hiatus resolution: Coalescence

[dnõs]
Dnããråz
“God”

[Otto Kretschmer]

Nasal vowel breaking
[dnɔus]
Dnous
“God”

[Zju]

Word-initial consonant clusters are broken up by epenthetic vowels

[də'nɔus]
Denous
“God”

[Man in Space]

Vowel fronting after nasals, which delete. Plus spelling reform.

[deus]
Deus
“God”

(Shoot…I think we posted at the exact same time because I got no notification of an edit conflict)

[Raphael]

Vowel fronting after nasals, which delete. Plus spelling reform.

[deus]
Deus
“God”

Well played.

[Man in Space]

Vowel fronting after nasals, which delete. Plus spelling reform.

[deus]
Deus
“God”

Well played.

The door was wide open, I just had to pass through.