Word evolution game

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[ʙ] > [bɾ]

[ɑ̃ɔ̯̃'bɾuː.ɗən]
aonbrúden

The iconoclasts eventually win out, but now religion is on the decline

(1) (by extension with "demonic image") "vision, dream, phantasm, chimaera"
(2) (by extension with "object of adoration") "goal, desire (usually phantasmal or unrealistic)"
(3) (calque) "idol singer"
(4) (in tabletop games) "holy symbol"
(4) (now old-fashioned or iconolatrist) "icon, relic, object of adoration"
(5) (obsolete, associated with old editions of iconoclastic religious texts) "idol, false idol, demonic image"
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Chain shift in vowels

[ɔ̯̃:'bɾɑɔ̯.ɗən]
aonbrúden


(1) (by extension with "demonic image") "vision, dream, phantasm, chimaera"
(2) (by extension with "object of adoration") "goal, desire (usually phantasmal or unrealistic)"
(3) (calque) "idol singer"
(4) (in tabletop games) "holy symbol"
(4) (now old-fashioned or iconolatrist) "icon, relic, object of adoration"
(5) (obsolete, associated with old editions of iconoclastic religious texts) "idol, false idol, demonic image"
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['bu.ki]
buki
"fish"
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Vowels following voiced consonants take low pitch, and following voiceless take high pitch:

[bù.kí]
bukí
"fish"
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Voicing Collapse

[pù.kí]
bukí
"fish"
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Regressive consonant assimilation

[kʷù.kí]
bukí
"fish"
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Palatisation

[kʷù.cí]
bukí
"fish"
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Umlaut:

[kᶣỳ.cí]
bukí

(1.) (n.) "fish"
(2.) (n.) (by extension) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
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Further palatisation

[kᶣỳ.tsí]
bukí

(1.) (n.) "fish"
(2.) (n.) (by extension) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
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Terminal vowel deletion

[kᶣỳts]
bukí

(1.) (n.) "fish"
(2.) (n.) (by extension) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
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Cluster simplification with compensatory lengthening, minor orthographic changes.

[kᶣỳːs]
bùki

(1.) (n.) "fish"
(2.) (n.) (by extension) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
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Breaking

[kᶣỳœ̀s]
kyœs

(1.) (n.) "fish"
(2.) (n.) (by extension) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
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Fronting of labiovelars

[pʲỳœ̀s]
kyœs

(1.) (n.) "fish"
(2.) (n.) (by extension) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
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Lenition of [p] to [ɸ]

[ɸʲỳœ̀s]
phüos

(1.) (n.) (now literary or dialectal) "fish"
(2.) (n.) (now more usual) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
(3.) (n.) (by extension, of creative works) "flop, anything poorly received, either critically or commercially"
(4.) (n.) (by extension, of automobiles or other mechanical products) "lemon"
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Progressive palatalization

[ɸʲỳœ̀ʃ]
phüos

(1.) (n.) (now literary or dialectal) "fish"
(2.) (n.) (now more usual) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
(3.) (n.) (by extension, of creative works) "flop, anything poorly received, either critically or commercially"
(4.) (n.) (by extension, of automobiles or other mechanical products) "lemon"
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Deaspiration

[jỳœ̀ʃ]
phüos

(1.) (n.) (now literary or dialectal) "fish"
(2.) (n.) (now more usual) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
(3.) (n.) (by extension, of creative works) "flop, anything poorly received, either critically or commercially"
(4.) (n.) (by extension, of automobiles or other mechanical products) "lemon"
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Glide fortition

[ɟỳœ̀ʃ]
phüos

(1.) (n.) (now scientific) "fish"
(2.) (n.) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
(3.) (n.) (of creative works) "so bad it's good"
(4.) (n.) (by extension, of automobiles or other mechanical products) "lemon; vehicle with too much money sunk into it"
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[ʃ] > [ç]

[ɟỳœ̀ç]
gyüosh

(1.) (n.) (now scientific, also literary or dialectal) "fish"
(2.) (n.) "something that functions poorly in a new environment, as a fish out of water"
(3.) (n.) (of creative works) "so bad it's good"
(4.) (n.) (by extension, of automobiles or other mechanical products) "lemon; vehicle with too much money sunk into it"
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Quite a change from ['bu.ki]

Anyways numerals from 1 to 1 hundred including 20 in fake latin.
['di.xa] ['nue.θa] ['tu.a] ['de.di] ['ɲa.ða] ['sue:.xi] ['t͡sa:.ta] ['a.ʒi.ɾi] ['noi.di] ['za.ʃin] ['nue:n] ['θi:.tan]
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Initial voiced fricatives devoice:

dicha
['di.xa]

nuetha
['nue.θa]

tuha
['tu.a]

dedi
['de.di]

cnadha
['ɲa.ða]

suéchi
['sue:.xi]

tsata
['t͡sa:.ta]

ajiri
['a.ʒi.ɾi]

noidi
['noi.di]

sascin
['sa.ʃin]

nuén
['nue:n]

thítan
['θi:.tan]
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