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Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 9:04 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
Loss of prenasalisation:
[ʃʒ̩ː.ɣɤ̀ʁ̞]
shih-hèr
'screen; pane of glass; (obsolete) magnifying glass'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 6:43 pm
by Man in Space
I absolutely love the retro Wade-Giles feel of this romanization.
Syllabic fricatives lose syllabicity, causing a true mixed-voice onset to form.
[ʃ͜ʒɣɤ̀ʁ̞]
shih-hèr
'screen, display; (
slang) smartphone'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 9:04 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Epinthesis:
[ʃiʒɣɤ̀ʁ̞]
shij-hèr
'screen, display; (slang) smartphone'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 9:25 pm
by Travis B.
Devoice obstruent sequences while lengthening vowels before the former voiced obstruents.
[ʃiːʃxɤ̀ʁ̞]
shij-hèr
'screen, display; (slang) smartphone'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 9:44 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Postconsonantal [x] > [j].
[ʃiːʃjɤ̀ʁ̞]
shī-shièr
'screen, display; (slang, now dated) smartphone'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:19 pm
by foxcatdog
Derhotacism with compensatory lengthening and raising.
[ʃiːʃjɯ̀:]
shī-shièr
'screen, display; (slang, now dated) smartphone'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:29 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[ʃ] > [ɕ] before high front vowels and [j]
[ɕiːɕjɯ̀:]
shī-shièr
'screen, display; (slang, now dated) smartphone'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 11:56 pm
by foxcatdog
Frankly i don't think this world has smartphones. Now dog companions who fufill the functions of a computer and also connect to the spiritnet is probably what they have.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:01 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
Somebody tried to turn a word I contributed for "cardinal" (a species of bird) into the name of a bird goddess (which categorically would not exist in-world), so "mythical creature" to "display screen" seems to be par for the course.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:01 am
by Travis B.
[ɕ] > [ʑ] between sonorants.
[ɕiːʑjɯ̀:]
shī-zhièr
'screen, display; (slang, now retro) smartphone'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:51 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
Rhotacism, round 2, fricative boogaloo:
[ɕiːʁjɯ̀:]
shī-rhièr
'screen, display; (slang, now retro) smartphone'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:52 am
by foxcatdog
*j fortion initially and postconsonantally
[ɕiːʁlɯ̀:]
shī-rhlèr
'screen, display; (slang, now retro) smartphone'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:22 pm
by Travis B.
[l] > [w] except at the start of syllables.
[ɕiːʁwɯ̀:]
shī-rhuèr
'screen, display; (slang, now retro) smartphone'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:00 pm
by Zju
Vowel breaking:
[ɕiɐ̯ʁwɯ̀:]
shī-rhuèr
'infodisplay (a kind of future gadget); (obs., archaic) screen, display'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:00 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Continued vowel breaking:
[ɕiɐ̯ʁwɯ̀ɐ̯]
shir-rhuèr
"infodisplay (a kind of future gadget); (obs., archaic) screen, display"
Edit: If everybody's ready to move on, have another one of mine —
蛙杝
kyaradeki
[c͡çʰi̯ɐ̞́.ɾ̪ɐ̞̀.n̪d̪é̞ˑ.c͡çʰì]
"red maple"
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 7:43 pm
by foxcatdog
Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:00 pm
Continued vowel breaking:
[ɕiɐ̯ʁwɯ̀ɐ̯]
shir-rhuèr
"infodisplay (a kind of future gadget); (obs., archaic) screen, display"
Quite a change from...
[kʷɛ̃ŋ.ɣo'cœ́]
kʷɛ̃nɣocœ́
"A nikeeyan guard"
Also
Affricates lenite intervocalically
蛙杝
kyaradeki
[c͡çʰi̯ɐ̞́.ɾ̪ɐ̞̀.
n̪d̪é̞ˑ.çʰì]
"a canadian"
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:07 pm
by Travis B.
Aspirated fricatives don't really exist, so they are being removed.
蛙杝
kyaradeki
[c͡çʰi̯ɐ̞́.ɾ̪ɐ̞̀.n̪d̪é̞ˑ.çì]
"a canadian"
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:10 pm
by foxcatdog
Taps lost
蛙杝
kyaadeki
[c͡çʰi̯ɐ̞́.ɐ̞̀.n̪d̪é̞ˑ.çì]
"a canadian"
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:29 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Another technically impossible semantic evolution — Canada does not exist in-setting.
Anyway, coalescence of adjacent like vowels
蛙杝
kyādéhi
[c͡çʰi̯ɐ̞̂ː.n̪d̪é̞ˑ.çì]
"red maple; (world-external) Canada, Canadian"
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 9:18 pm
by foxcatdog
I was just doing it to mess with you.