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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’