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Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:02 pm
by Man in Space
[ɬ] > [θ]

[θa'ɸa]
łapá
‘dog’

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:18 am
by foxcatdog
stressed vowel shift

[θa'ɸɛ]
łapá
‘dog’

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:45 am
by Otto Kretschmer
[ɸ]>[f]
[θa'fɛ]
łapá
‘dog’

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:37 am
by Man in Space
Vowel markedness transferred onto preceding consonants, with concomitant loss or weakening

[θˤɐfʲə]
łapá
‘dog; roll of 2 on 2d6’

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:18 am
by Travis B.
[θˤ] > [χ]

[χɐfʲə]
łapá
‘dog; roll of 2 on 2d6’

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:38 pm
by Man in Space
Vowel contraction for intervocalic fricatives

[χɥɛ]
łapá
‘dog; roll of 2 on 2d6’

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:07 pm
by foxcatdog
Spanishification and spelling reform

[χɥje]
łyie
‘dog; roll of 2 on 2d6’

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:37 pm
by Man in Space
Trill development

[ʜɥje]
łyie
‘dog; roll of 2 on 2d6; bad luck’

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:23 pm
by foxcatdog
palatisation

[ʜᶣje]
łyie
"bad luck"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:26 pm
by foxcatdog
New word since i think we have exhausted all possibilities with the other one so soon.
['pé.te.min]
pétemin
"person"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:08 pm
by Travis B.
Intervocalic unstressed post-tonic coronal plosive elision with vowel coalescence.

['péː.min]
pétemin
"person"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:30 am
by Darren
Initial consonant loss:

['éː.min]
pétemin
"person"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:58 am
by Man in Space
Unstressed vowels lost between singleton consonants with resultant assimilation

['éːmm]
pétemin
"person"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:10 am
by foxcatdog
Vowel breaking

['jómm]
pétemin
"person"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:14 am
by Otto Kretschmer
[mm]>[mn]
['jómn]
Jomn
"person"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:49 am
by Darren
Nasal dissimilation

['jóml]
Joml
"person"

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:02 am
by Otto Kretschmer
Insertion of an interconsonantal schwa
['jóməl]
Joml
"person

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:53 am
by Man in Space
P > Ø / {u,o,w}_

['jóəl]
Joml
‘person; reflexive anaphor’

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:06 pm
by Travis B.
Vowel coalescence.

['jóːl]
Joml
‘person; reflexive anaphor’

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:51 pm
by Otto Kretschmer
Final [l]>[w]
['jóːw]
Joml
‘person; reflexive anaphor’