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Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 3:19 pm
by Man in Space
Loss of offglide if a vowel of the same POA is in the next syllable
[ʈ͡ʂɛ̌zʲi]
čaizi
‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 6:54 pm
by foxcatdog
*ʈ͡ʂ > *ts
[tsɛ̌zʲi]
čaizi
‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 10:16 pm
by Travis B.
Lengthening of vowels before voiced obstruents followed by general obstruent devoicing.
[tsɛ̌ːsʲi]
čaizi
‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 1:29 am
by Lērisama
Breaking of long vowels (and also spreading high tone to the final [i], since I realised it didn't have any)
[tsàjésʲí]
čaizi
‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’]
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 4:35 am
by foxcatdog
Chainshift in Sibilants
[sàjéʃí]
čaizi
‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 7:37 am
by Travis B.
[j] > [ʝ] in syllable onsets
[sàʝéʃí]
čaizi
‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 7:38 am
by Man in Space
Voicing harmony
[sàçéʃí]
čaizi
‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 8:02 am
by foxcatdog
*s > *t
[tàçéʃí]
čaizi
‘(Archaic) riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial, (Modern) disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 8:48 am
by Man in Space
Loss of penult vowels between voiceless sounds, with assimilation of the latter as appropriate
[tàççí]
čaizi
‘(Archaic) riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial, (Modern) disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 10:12 am
by Lērisama
A stress accent develops, typically on high-toned syllables, with reduction of unstressed syllables
[tɐ̀çˈçí]
čaizi
(Archaic) ‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
(Modern) ‘disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 1:15 pm
by foxcatdog
*t > *d before low tone vowels
[dɐ̀çˈçí]
čaizi
(Archaic) ‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
(Modern) ‘disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 1:28 pm
by Travis B.
Degemination with compensatory lengthening.
[dɐ̀ːˈçí]
čaizi
(Archaic) ‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
(Modern) ‘disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 1:59 pm
by foxcatdog
*ç > *cç
[dɐ̀ːˈcçí]
čaizi
(Archaic) ‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
(Modern) ‘disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 2:55 pm
by Lērisama
Dissimilation of affricates
*ç > *cç
[dɐ̀ːˈksí]
čaizi
(Archaic) ‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
(Modern) ‘disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 4:07 pm
by Travis B.
Diphthongization of long vowels.
[dɐ̀wˈksí]
čaizi
(Archaic) ‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
(Modern) ‘disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 6:58 pm
by Man in Space
*C > Ø / PK_
[dɐ̀wˈkí]
čaizi
(Archaic) ‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
(Modern) ‘disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 9:26 pm
by Travis B.
Palatalization of velars before front vowels.
[dɐ̀wˈcí]
čaizi
(Archaic) ‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
(Modern) ‘disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2025 1:30 am
by Lērisama
[w] deletes, rounding a preceding dorsal consonant
[dɐ̀ˈcʷí]
dawkí
(Archaic) ‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
(Modern) ‘disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2025 2:40 am
by foxcatdog
Reduced vowels become full
[dàˈcʷí]
dawkí
(Archaic) ‘riot, revolution; insurgency, resistance; obstinacy; denial’
(Modern) ‘disobedience’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:24 am
by Man in Space
Roundedness transferred from consonants to following vowels
[dàˈcý]
dawkí
‘disobedience, flagrant insubordination’