Word evolution game

[foxcatdog]

*o > *a

['mu.tå.ja:]
muthajaa
‘tomato garden’

[Man in Space]

Voiceless vowel converts to secondary articulation

['mu.tˀja:]
muthajaa
‘tomato garden’

[Travis B.]

[j] > [ç] after voiceless consonants.

['mu.tˀça:]
muthajaa
‘tomato garden’

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Resyllabification:

['mutˀ.ça:]
muthajaa (Old Style)
mutăhjā (New Style)
‘tomato garden’

[Man in Space]

Radical affectation of vowels, applies to the whole word

['mɵtˀ.çɜ̞æ]
muthajaa (Old Style)
mutăhjā (New Style)
‘tomato garden; (slang) collective farm’

[foxcatdog]

*m > *b

['bɵtˀ.çɜ̞æ]
muthajaa (Old Style)
mutăhjā (New Style)
‘tomato garden; (slang) collective farm’

[foxcatdog]

New Word

['li:.a]
liia
nape of the neck

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Yod excrescence:

['li:.ja]
liiya
nape of the neck

[Travis B.]

Great Vowel Shift

['laɪ̯.ja]
liiya
nape of the neck

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[a] > [ɑ]

['lɑɪ̯.jɑ]
laiya
nape of the neck

[Otto Kretschmer]

A glottal stop added
['lɑɪ̯.jɑʔ]
laiya
nape of the neck

[Travis B.]

[ʔ] > [q] / [V+back]_

['lɑɪ̯.jɑq]
laiya
nape of the neck

[foxcatdog]

*j > *dʲ
['lɑɪ̯.dʲɑq]
laiya
nape of the neck

[Rounin Ryuuji]

PIE Consonant Shift:

['lɑɪ̯.dʲɑk]
laiyac
nape of the neck

[foxcatdog]

Vowel raising

['lɔɪ̯.dʲɔk]
laiyac
nape of the neck

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[dʲ] > [z]

['lɔɪ̯.zɔk]
laiyac
nape of the neck

[foxcatdog]

*l > *n

['nɔɪ̯.zɔk]
laiyac
nape of the neck

[Man in Space]

Deletion of unstressed identical vowel, with progressive voicing assimilation

['nɔɪ̯zg]
nåyzk
nape of the neck; loop on a coat’s collar on which it may be hung (metonymically used to refer to a style of jacket characteristic of the invading force)

[Travis B.]

Diphthong height assimilation.

['nɔɛ̯zg]
nåyzk
nape of the neck; loop on a coat’s collar on which it may be hung (metonymically used to refer to a style of jacket characteristic of the invading force)

[foxcatdog]

*zg > *iŋ when final
['nɔɛ̯iŋ]
nåyzk
nape of the neck; loop on a coat’s collar on which it may be hung (metonymically used to refer to a style of jacket characteristic of the invading force)