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Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 3:05 pm
by Lērisama
hècdẓé
[hwɐ̀ˈdzɛ́j]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
χʷ → hw
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 3:52 pm
by Man in Space
hècdẓé
[hɐ̀wˈdzɛ́j]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Metathesis
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 4:59 pm
by Travis B.
hècdẓé
[hɐ̀ò̯ˈdzɛ́j]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Opening of [w] in codas.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 5:04 pm
by Man in Space
hǎodzeedz
[hɐ̀ò̯ˈdzɛ́dz]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Fortition of final *j
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 5:11 pm
by Travis B.
hǎodzeedz
[hæ̀ò̯ˈdzɛ́dz]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Dissimilation of diphthong nuclei from offglides.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 7:47 pm
by Man in Space
hǎodzeedz
[hœ̀ò̯ˈdzɛ́dz]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Regressive roundness assimilation in diphthongs
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 8:32 am
by Travis B.
hǎodzeedz
[hʷœ̀ò̯ˈdzʷɛ́dz]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Labialization before and after rounded vowels.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 9:17 am
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
hǎodzeedz
[hʷɛ̀ù̯ˈdzʷédz]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
vowel chain shift.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:13 am
by Travis B.
hǎodzeedz
[fɛ̀ù̯ˈdzʷédz]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
hʷ > f
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:36 am
by Starbeam
fǎudzeedz
[fɛ̀ù̯ˈdzʷéts]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Word-final devoicing
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:40 am
by Travis B.
fǎudzeedz
[fɛ̀ù̯ˈdʑʷéts]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Palatalization of coronals before front vowels.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 12:10 pm
by Lērisama
fǎudzeedz
[fɛ̀ù̯ˈʑʷés]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Deaffrication
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 5:10 pm
by Travis B.
fǎudzeedz
[fɛ̀ù̯ˈzʷéθ]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Chain shift of alveolar sibilants to interdentals and alveolopalatal sibilants to alveolar sibilants.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 6:33 pm
by Man in Space
fǎudzeedz
[vzùˈzʷèθ]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Diphthongs beginning with a front vowel fricativize it, resolving the resultant environment by syllabifying the coda, and shifting all moraic tone to the right in doing it
(I hope this is not beyond the pale. It’s the deletion of the nucleus in this case and how the resulting mess phonetically resolves.)
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 8:47 pm
by Travis B.
fǎudzeedz
[ðʷùˈzʷèθ]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
vz > ðʷ
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2026 4:04 am
by Man in Space
fǎudzeedz
[ðʷùˈzʷè]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Loss of final consonants
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2026 11:54 am
by Lērisama
fǎudzeedz
[ðùˈzè]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Delabialisation
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2026 12:11 pm
by Man in Space
fǎudzeedz
[nùˈzè]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
*ð > n
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:06 pm
by Lērisama
dhùzè
[nuˈzḛ]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Low tone → creaky voice on the stressed syllable, all other tone is lost
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2026 2:54 pm
by Travis B.
dhùzè
[nuˈzḛj]
‘moniker for a specific head of state; authoritarian policies; (pejorative, archaic) Big Brother-esque authority’
Insertion of glides after stressed tense vowels.