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Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:29 pm
by Travis B.
Final [s] elision.
[deu]
Deus
“God”
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:05 pm
by foxcatdog
Modern Frenchification
[dø]
Deus
“God”
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:42 pm
by Man in Space
Vive la France
[djø]
Dieu
“God”
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:16 am
by Otto Kretschmer
New word
[ɰᵝa̠ta̠ɕi]
Watashi
"I"
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:56 am
by foxcatdog
britification
[ɰᵝa̠ʔa̠ɕi]
Watashi
"I"
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:35 am
by Otto Kretschmer
[ɰ]>[w]
[wᵝa̠ʔa̠ɕi]
Watashi
"I"
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:36 am
by Man in Space
Rosenfelder’s law, plus some orthographic reform
[ɰ]>[w]
[wa̠ʔɕi]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:02 am
by Travis B.
[ʔɕ] > [tɕ]
[wa̠tɕi]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:28 am
by Man in Space
Preceding a coronal stop, /a̠/ > [e], deleting the stop
[weɕi]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:32 am
by Travis B.
[w] > [ɥ] before a front vowel.
[ɥeɕi]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:55 am
by Man in Space
Coronals/palatals delete in intervocalic position before /i/
[ɥej]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:57 pm
by Otto Kretschmer
Monophtongization
[ɥe:]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:52 pm
by Zju
Man in Space wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:35 pm
(Shoot…I think we posted at the exact same time because I got no notification of an edit conflict)
oh dnoes!
anyway, let me cheat a little and insert two changes in a row: expressive reduplication and dissimilative fortition
[ɟʷeːbʲeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:35 pm
by Travis B.
Devoicing of initial plosives.
[cʷeːbʲeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:00 pm
by foxcatdog
Palatisation and labialisation lost
[ceːbeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:23 pm
by Travis B.
[c] > [tɕ]
[tɕeːbeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:25 pm
by foxcatdog
Marshal Islandification
[tɕ] > {r]
[rːbeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:25 pm
by foxcatdog
[ɬa'pa]
łapá
‘dog’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:26 pm
by Travis B.
[rːb] > [ʙː]
[ʙːeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:27 pm
by Travis B.
Intervocalic [p] > [ɸ]
[ɬa'ɸa]
łapá
‘dog’