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Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2025 1:22 am
by Man in Space
[ˈseɲɕip]
tïsẽeṭsp
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

i-epenthesis

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[keːɕiɲˈtaːʁo]
koośöntákkuu
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Shortening of unstressed long vowels

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2025 9:19 am
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
[ˈseɲɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

deletion of word-final voiceless plosives

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[keːsinˈtaːʁo]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

depalatalization

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2025 12:34 pm
by Travis B.
[ˈseɲiɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Vowel epenthesis to break up clusters.

[keːsinˈtɑːʁo]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Backing of vowels before uvular consonants.

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2025 1:04 pm
by Lērisama
[ˈseŋiɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Post vocalic nasal neutralisation

[keːsːˈtɑːʁ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Syncope of vowels in the second syllable of a trochaic foot, with simplification of resulting clusters

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2025 1:16 pm
by Travis B.
[ˈseŋiɕih]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Insertion of [h] after final high vowels.

[kesːˈtɑːʁ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Shortening of vowels before geminates.

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2025 9:32 am
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
[ˈseŋgiɕih]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

nasal consonants > prenasalized plosives

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[kesːˈtɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

final devoicing

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2025 1:32 pm
by Travis B.
[ˈsẽːgiɕih]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Deprenasalization of postvocalic prenasalized consonants with nasalization and compensatory lengthening of preceding vowels.

[kesːəˈtɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Schwa-epenthesis

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:47 am
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
[ˈsẽːgiɕhi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

metathesis of [Vh]

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[kxesːəˈtɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

affrication of word-initial plosives

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2025 12:25 pm
by Travis B.
[ˈsẽːgiɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Loss of [h] after consonants.

[kʰesːəˈtɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Shifting of affrication to aspiration.

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 11:09 am
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
[ˈsẽːɣiɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

lenition of intervocalic plosives

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[kʰesːəˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

[t] > [ʈ] before open back vowels

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 12:16 pm
by Travis B.
[ˈsẽːʝiɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Palatalization of dorsal consonants before front vowels and [j].

[kʰetsəˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

[sː] > [ts]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 1:34 pm
by Lērisama
[ˈtẽːʒisi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Fricative chain shift.

[kketsəˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Aspiration to gemination

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 2:02 pm
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
[ˈtẽdʒisi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

long vowels followed by fricatives become short vowels followed by affricates

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[xːetsəˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

lenition of word-initial plosives

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 2:07 pm
by Travis B.
[ˈdẽdʒisi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Voicing of consonants before nasal vowels.

[kxetsəˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Affrication of geminate fricatives.

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 2:55 pm
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
[ˈdẽdʒis]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

deletion of unstressed word-final vowels

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[kxetsˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

deletion of schwas

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2025 10:23 pm
by Man in Space
[ˈnẽdʒis]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

*Z > N / # _ [ +syll +nas ]

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[kxe̥tsˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Devoicing of unstressed vowels when between two voiceless consonants

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2025 10:46 pm
by Travis B.
[ˈnẽʒis]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Deaffrication

[kxtsˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Elision of voiceless vowels

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 9:01 am
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
[ˈnẽʒĩs]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Nasal harmony

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[xtˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Affricates simplify to fricatives word-initially and to plosives word-internally

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 10:51 am
by Man in Space
[ˈnẽjĩs]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Lenition

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[iʈˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Vocalization of initial dorsal fricatives before a consonant, with simplification

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 11:11 am
by Lērisama
[ˈnĩːs]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Contraction of vowel sequences, for which [ji wu] count as hiatus



[iˈʈɑːχ]
iṭṭaḫ
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Simplification of geminates