Word evolution game

[foxcatdog]

Epenthetic vowels inserted to break up consonant clusters

[ʈʂɨɽ͡ru]
tryru

*a > *ɔ after nasals

[ɴɔˀ˧˩]
ngo
"smoking wood"

[Man in Space]

New word:

[kʰɛ̃ʙ̯̃ɛ̃nɑɯ̯kʰed̪e]
khaimainaïkhede
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land’

[/ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/]

New word:

[kʰɛ̃ʙ̯̃ɛ̃nɑɯ̯kʰed̪e]
khaimainaïkhede
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land’

[kʰɛ̃ʙ̯̃ɛ̃nɑɯ̯kʰeðe]
khaimainaïkheðe

dental plosives weaken into fricatives intervocalically

[Travis B.]

[kʰɛ̃β̞̃ɛ̃nɑɯ̯kʰeðe]
khaimainaïkheðe

Lenition of intervocalic bilabial trills to bilabial approximants, applying equally to nasalized and non-nasalized phones.

[/ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/]

[kʰɛ̃β̞̃ɛ̃nɑ̃ɯ̯̃kʰeðe]
khaimainaïkheðe

Nasalization carries across vowels word-internally, but is blocked by plosives.

[Lērisama]

[k͡xɛ̃β̞̃ɛ̃nɑ̃ɯ̯̃k͡xeðe]
khaimainaïkheðe

Affricatiom of aspirates

[Travis B.]

[k͡xɛ̃β̞̃ɛ̃nɑ̃ɯ̯̃xeðe]
khaimainaïxeðe

Deaffrication of non-initial affricates.

[/ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/]

[k͡xɛ̃β̞̃ɛ̃næ̃ĩ̯xeðe]
khaimainaïxeðe

umlaut before sylabic /i e/.

[Travis B.]

[k͡xɛβ̞̃ɛnæ̃ĩ̯xeðe]
khaimainaïxeðe

Denasalization of nasal vowels before nasal consonants excluding nasal glides.

[/ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/]

[k͡xɛβ̞̃ɛnæ̃ĩ̯xeðe]
khaimainaïxeðe

Denasalization of nasal vowels before nasal consonants excluding nasal glides.

If I was you, I would've dropped the nasalized consonants and increased the nasalization of the surrounding vowels, but it is what it is.

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[k͡xɛβ̞̃ɛnæ̃j̃xeðe]
khaimainayxeðe
'turf, soil, grounds, plot of land'

non-syllabic /i u/ become /j w/.

[Travis B.]

[k͡xɛβ̞̃ɛnæ̃j̃xeje]
khaimainayxeðe
'turf, soil, grounds, plot of land'

Patalization of [ð] before front vowels.

[Man in Space]

[cçɛβ̞̃ɛnæ̃j̃çeje]
khaimainayxeðe
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

Palataization of velars

[/ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/]

[cçɛβ̞̃ɛnĩːçiːe̯]
khaimainayxeðe
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

[Vj] becomes [iː].

[Man in Space]

[cçœβ̞̃œnĩːçiːe̯]
khaimainayxeðe
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

Labial affectation

[Travis B.]

[tɕœβ̞̃œnĩːɕiːe̯]
khaimainayxeðe
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

Assibilation and, to a degree, fronting of palatal fricatives and affricates.

[/ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/]

[tɕœmœnĩːɕiːe̯]
khaimainayxeðe
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

nasalized glides assimilate into nasal consonants.

[Lērisama]

[tɕɛmɛniɕəji]
Tcemeniceï
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

Vowel chain shift

[/ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/]

[tɕɛmɛniɕəi̯]
Tcemeniceï
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

deletion of /j/.

[Man in Space]

Rosenfelder’s law (assuming stress on the initial)

[tɕɛmniɕi]
Tcemeniceï
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

[WeepingElf]

Rosenfelder’s law (assuming stress on the initial)

[tɕɛmniɕi]
Tcemeniceï
‘turf, soil, grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs’

What is Rosenfelder's Law?