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Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 4:00 pm
by Travis B.
[ɾ] > [ʁ]

[ˈmɛˑ.jʊ.ta.ʁəʊ]
meyutaró

"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 4:37 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Loss of vowels in unstressed posttonic syllables:

[ˈmɛˑj.ta.ʁəʊ]
meitaró

"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 4:49 pm
by Travis B.
[jt] > [ɕt]

[ˈmɛˑɕ.ta.ʁəʊ]
meitaró

"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 4:55 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Intertonic vowel reduction:

[ˈmɛˑɕ.tə.ʁəʊ]
meitaró

"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 5:44 pm
by Man in Space
*t-debuccalization

[ˈmɛˑɕ.hə.ʁəʊ]
meitaró

"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 7:05 pm
by foxcatdog
*ɕ > *k > *t chainshift to fill the gaps
[ˈmɛˑk.hə.ʁəʊ]
mekharó

"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 7:06 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Unstressed syllable loss.

Edit: Accidental two at once means a dialect split:

Dialect 1:

[ˈmɛˑɕ.ʁəʊ]
meitró
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Dialect 2:

[ˈmɛˑk.hə.ʁəʊ]
mekharó
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 7:11 pm
by foxcatdog
Unstressed syllable reduction gets applied to dialect 2
Dialect 1:

[ˈmɛˑɕ.ʁəʊ]
meitró
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Dialect 2:

[ˈmɛˑkh.ʁəʊ]
mekharó
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 7:13 pm
by Travis B.
[kh] > [x]

Dialect 1:

[ˈmɛˑɕ.ʁəʊ]
meitró
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Dialect 2:

[ˈmɛˑ.xə.ʁəʊ]
mekharó
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 8:04 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Schwa loss begins in Dialect 1, but also ends up affecting Dialect 2

Dialect 1:

[ˈmɛˑɕ.ʁʊ]
meitru
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Dialect 2:

[ˈmɛˑx.ʁʊ]
mekhru
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 8:13 pm
by foxcatdog
Dialect 1 *m palatises before front vowels

[ˈnɛˑɕ.ʁʊ]
meitru
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Vowels raise

[ˈmɛˑx.ʁu]
mekhru
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 8:32 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Dialect 1: [ɛˑ] > [jæ] in closed syllables.

[ˈnjæɕ.ʁʊ]
meihru
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"

Dialect 2: [x] > [j] after front vowels.

[ˈmɛˑj.ʁu]
meihru
"peace, tranqulity; (literary) order; (literary) orderliness, regularity; (of verbs and bowels) regular"
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A sense of national identity begins to develop, and the orthographies are harmonised.

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 9:20 pm
by foxcatdog
[ˈu.β̃i.sam.na]
umisamna
"the great sea, west"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 11:11 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Coda nasals lost, leaving behind long nasal vowels:

[ˈu.β̃i.sãː.na]
umisamna
"the great sea, west"

(This word seems awfully familiar, but I wonder how it can have come to be...)

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Thu May 11, 2023 2:32 am
by foxcatdog
*u was orignally *o and the nasal was unlenited for the base word giving something like *oumi

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 2:42 pm
by Man in Space
Loss of nasal syllables following a nasal vowel

[ˈu.β̃i.sãː]
umisamna
"the great sea, west"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 2:49 pm
by Travis B.
Breaking of nasal vowels.

[ˈu.β̃i.saw̃]
umisamna
"the great sea, west"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 3:01 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[β̃] > [w̃]

[ˈu.w̃i.saw̃]
umhisamh
"west"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 7:10 pm
by foxcatdog
*s > *ɬ

[ˈu.w̃i.ɬaw̃]
umhisamh
"west"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 7:24 pm
by Travis B.
Schwa epenthesis after coda consonants.

[ˈu.w̃i.ɬa.w̃ə]
umhisamh
"west"