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Posted: **Mon May 15, 2023 8:42 pm**

Vowel breaking

[ˈjed.de]
ílne
"will o' the wisp, marsh-light; firework(s); impossible dream, wild fantasy"

Posted: **Mon May 15, 2023 8:46 pm**

New word or two

[ˈi.na.xi ˈap.pi:.β̃a]
inaki appiima
"little white dog"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 12:31 am**

Final vowels lost

[ˈi.nax ˈap.pi:β̃]
inaki appiima
"little white dog; garment worn about the hands"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 12:36 pm**

Final consonants coalesce with preceding vowels.

[ˈi.nɑ ˈap.pĩː]
inaki appiima
"annoying yappy dog; garment worn about the hands"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 5:48 pm**

Nasalisation transferred to preceding consonants

[ˈi.nɑ ˈam.miː]
inah-ammí
"annoying yappy dog; garment worn about the hands"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 6:14 pm**

Sandhi processes

[i.ˈnam.miː]
inah-ammí
"annoying yappy dog; garment worn about the hands"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 6:26 pm**

Umlaut:

[i.ˈnɛm.miː]
inah-ammí
"annoying yappy dog; garment worn about the hands"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 6:34 pm**

Diphthongisation of long *i:

[i.ˈnɛm.mai]
inah-ammí
"annoying yappy dog; garment worn about the hands"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 6:37 pm**

[ai] > [ɛi]

[i.ˈnɛm.mɛi]
inah-ammí
"annoying yappy dog; garment worn about the hands"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 7:03 pm**

Frication of initial high vowels

[ˈznɛm.mɛi]
inah-ammí
"annoying yappy dog; garment worn about the hands"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 7:23 pm**

Degemination

[ˈznɛ.mɛi]
inah-ammí
"mittens"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 7:41 pm**

Epinthesis of following vowel to break up clusters:

[ˈzɛnɛ.mɛi]
zynah-ammí
"mittens"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 9:13 pm**

*n > *l im between vowels

[ˈzɛlɛ.mɛi]
zelemei
"mittens"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 10:44 pm**

[l] > [w] intervocalically and postvocalically

[ˈzɛwɛ.mɛi]
zelemei
"stereotypical name for a cat"

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2023 11:02 pm**

*w > *b

[ˈzɛbɛ.mɛi]
zelemei
"stereotypical name for a cat"

Posted: **Thu May 18, 2023 7:48 am**

Vowels lengthen in open, stressed syllables:

[ˈzɛːbɛ.mɛi]
zébemei
"cat"

Posted: **Thu May 18, 2023 11:13 am**

[ɛː] > [iɛ]

[ˈziɛbɛ.mɛi]
zébemei
"cat"

Posted: **Thu May 18, 2023 11:32 am**

The final syllable is altered by association with an onomatopoeia for a cat noise

[ˈziɛbɛ.mɾæʊ]
zébe-mrá
"cat"

Posted: **Thu May 18, 2023 4:52 pm**

I think we should get a new word.

Posted: **Thu May 18, 2023 5:01 pm**

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 4:52 pm I think we should get a new word.

We've got a perfectly good word as it is! We can get a new word when we've reduced the word to one phone.

Word evolution game