Word evolution game

[Travis B.]

Pretonic [u] > [β] / _C

[βɹàtrá]
vratrá
'mustard plant'

[foxcatdog]

*tr > *ss

[βɹàssá]
vrassá
'mustard plant'

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɹ] > [w] postconsonantally

[βwàssá]
vrassá
(n.) "mustard (condiment); mustard plant; mustard yellow (colour)"
(adj.) "mustard-flavoured; mustard yellow"

[Travis B.]

[βw] > [ɣʷ]

[ɣʷàssá]
gwassá
(n.) "mustard (condiment); mustard plant; mustard yellow (colour)"
(adj.) "mustard-flavoured; mustard yellow"

[Zju]

Labialisation spreads:

[ɣʷàs.sʷá]
gwassá
(n.) "mustard (condiment); mustard plant; mustard yellow (colour)"
(adj.) "mustard-flavoured; mustard yellow"

[Travis B.]

[ss(ʷ)] > [ts(ʷ)] (as an affricate)

[ɣʷà.tsʷá]
gwazá
(n.) "mustard (condiment); mustard plant; mustard yellow (colour)"
(adj.) "mustard-flavoured; mustard yellow"

[foxcatdog]

*ɣʷ > *gʷ

[gʷà.tsʷá]
gwazá
(n.) "mustard (condiment); mustard plant; mustard yellow (colour)"
(adj.) "mustard-flavoured; mustard yellow"

[Travis B.]

Labialization is transferred from consonants to following vowels.

[gɒ̀.tsɒ́]
gwazá
(n.) "mustard (condiment); mustard plant; mustard yellow (colour)"
(adj.) "mustard-flavoured; mustard yellow"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

High-pitched vowels lengthen in open syllables:

[gɒ̀.tsɒ́ː]
gwazá
(n.) "mustard (condiment); mustard plant; mustard yellow (colour)"
(adj.) "mustard-flavoured; mustard yellow"

[foxcatdog]

*ɒ raises in final syllables

[gɒ̀.tsóː]
gwazó
(n.) "mustard (condiment); mustard plant; mustard yellow (colour)"
(adj.) "mustard-flavoured; mustard yellow"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Low-pitched syllables undergo yod-insertion (I think this can happen?):

[gjɒ̀.tsóː]
gwazó
(n.) "mustard (condiment); mustard plant; mustard yellow (colour)"
(adj.) "mustard-flavoured; mustard yellow"

[Travis B.]

[ɡj] > [ɟ]

[ɟɒ̀.tsóː]
gwazó
(n.) "mustard (condiment); mustard plant; mustard yellow (colour)"
(adj.) "mustard-flavoured; mustard yellow"

[foxcatdog]

*ɟ > *z

[zɒ̀.tsóː]
zatsó
(adj.) "bitter (now literary) mustard flavoured"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Vowel breaking:

[zɒ̀.tsɛ́ʊ]
zatsó
(adj.) "bitter; (now literary) mustard flavoured"

[foxcatdog]

Palatisation

[zɒ̀.tsʲɛ́ʊ]
zatsó
(adj.) "bitter; (now literary) mustard flavoured"

[Travis B.]

Vowels assimilate regressively to the palatalization of following consonants.

[zœ̀.tsʲɛ́ʊ]
zatsó
(adj.) "bitter; (now literary) mustard flavoured"

[foxcatdog]

Vowel raising in unstressed syllables

[zø̀.tsʲɛ́ʊ]
zatsó
(adj.) "bitter; (now literary) mustard flavoured"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Palatalisation trggers [ɛ́ʊ] > [ɥíj]

[zø̀.tsʲɥíj]
zeutsuí

(adj.) "(of scene, story, feelings) bitter, sad; (of flavour) bitter; (archaic or literary) mustard-flavoured"
(n.) "(literature) sad story, tragedy"
(n.) "(of flavour, emotion) bitterness"
(n.) (proper name) "Zeutsuí, a brand of mustard"
(n.) (trademark genericisation) "mustard"
(v.) "(literature, also of circumstances) to end in tragedy"
(v.) "become bitter"
(v.) "embitter"
(v.) (pseudo-archaism, increasing in popularty) "to spread with mustard"

You know, I bet the real Bradrn would say this word sounded like mush.

[Zju]

Semivowel metathesis to match with nucleus roundedness:

[zø̀ɥ.tsʲíj]
zeutsuí

(adj.) "(of scene, story, feelings) bitter, sad; (of flavour) bitter; (archaic or literary) mustard-flavoured"
(n.) "(literature) sad story, tragedy"
(n.) "(of flavour, emotion) bitterness"
(n.) (proper name) "Zeutsuí, a brand of mustard"
(n.) (trademark genericisation) "mustard"
(v.) "(literature, also of circumstances) to end in tragedy"
(v.) "become bitter"
(v.) "embitter"
(v.) (pseudo-archaism, increasing in popularty) "to spread with mustard"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[tsʲ] > [tɕ]

[zø̀ɥ.tɕíj]
zeutsuí

(adj.) "(of scene, story, feelings) bitter, sad; (of flavour) bitter; (archaic or literary) mustard-flavoured"
(n.) "(literature) sad story, tragedy"
(n.) "(of flavour, emotion) bitterness"
(n.) (proper name) "Zeutsuí, a brand of mustard"
(n.) (trademark genericisation) "mustard"
(v.) "(literature, also of circumstances) to end in tragedy"
(v.) "become bitter"
(v.) "embitter"
(v.) (pseudo-archaism, increasing in popularty) "to spread with mustard"