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Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 2:24 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Syllable weight draws stress:

[ɨ'kɨʃ]
ykysh
"small reptile; (literary or dialectal) snake, serpent"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 2:30 pm
by Man in Space
Intervocalic stop lenition:

[ɨ'gɨʃ]
ygysh
"small reptile; (literary or dialectal) snake, serpent"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 3:45 pm
by Darren
Rounding dissimilation

[ʉˈɡɨʃ]
ygysh
"small reptile; (literary or dialectal) snake, serpent"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 3:58 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[j]-prosthesis on front and near-front rounded vowels:

[jʉˈɡɨʃ]
yugysh
"small reptile; (literary or dialectal) snake, serpent"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 4:38 pm
by Zju
Vowel backing after velars:

[jʉˈɡɯʃ]
yugysh
"lizard, skink; (literary or dialectal) snake, serpent"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 4:56 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Fortition:

[ʒʉˈɡɯʃ]
zhugysh
"lizard, skink; (literary or dialectal) snake, serpent"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 5:22 pm
by Darren
ʉ > ʏ

[ʒʏˈɡɯʃ]
zhugysh
"lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 6:13 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Anticipatory roundness and frontness assimilation

[ʒʏˈɡʉʃ]
zhügush
"lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 10:11 pm
by foxcatdog
*g > *k in stressed syllables (it becomes *y otherwise)
[ʒʏˈkʉʃ]
zhügush
"lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 11:15 pm
by Darren
Paragoge to prevent closed syllables

[ʒʏˈkʉʃʏ]
zhügushü
"lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 11:23 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Loss of pretonic unstressed vowels

['ʒkʉ.ʃʏ]
zhkushü
"lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:19 am
by foxcatdog
Usually the preceding consonant would assimilate in voicing but because there's a voiceless obstruent in the same syllable the opposite happens.

['ʒgʉ.ʃʏ]
zhgushü
"tail, (literary) lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 2:21 am
by Darren
/ʏ/ > /ø/

[ˈʒgʉ.ʃø]
zhgushü
"tail, (literary) lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:34 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
Metathesis:

[ˈgʒʉ.ʃø]
gzhusheo
"tail, (literary) lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:07 pm
by Zju
Word-final vowels get an offglide:

[ˈgʒʉ.ʃøɥ]
gzhusheo
"tail, (literary) lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 1:00 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Lengthening in open, stressed syllables:

[ˈgʒʉː.ʃøɥ]
gzhûsheow
"tail, (literary) lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 1:53 pm
by Travis B.
Schwa epenthesis between initial consonant clusters.

[ˈgəʒʉː.ʃøɥ]
gzhûsheow
"tail, (literary) lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 3:21 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Derounding of mid front rounded vowels and accompanying semivowels

[gə'ʒʉː.ʃej]
gëzhûshey
"tail, (literary) lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 3:27 pm
by Travis B.
Fronting of vowels between coronals.

[gə'ʒyː.ʃej]
gëzhûshey
"tail, (literary) lizard, skink"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 3:43 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Final diphthongs monophthongise.

[gə'ʒyː.ʃi]
gëzhûshi
"tail, ribbon, streamer"