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Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 8:22 am
by Travis B.
cheç
[cçaj]
'rich people getting poorer'
[e:] > [aj]
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 1:52 am
by foxcatdog
I predicted that would happen.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 1:54 am
by foxcatdog
[cçɔj]
'rich people getting poorer'
*a > *ɔ in closed syllables
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:51 am
by Man in Space
cheç
[cçœj]
‘rich people getting poorer’
Umlaut
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 9:33 am
by Lērisama
cheç
[cçøe̯]
‘rich people getting poorer’
Hight harmonisation
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 11:06 am
by Travis B.
cheç
[tɕøe̯]
‘rich people getting poorer’
Assibilation of palatal affricates.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 1:14 pm
by Man in Space
cheç
[tɕwø]
‘rich people getting poorer’
Diphthong resolution: multiphthongs that begin with a palatal element delete when following a palatal consonant while ejecting the rounding, if any, onto its environs (here labializing the onset and rounding *e to [ø])
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 3:05 pm
by Lērisama
cheç
[tɕwø]
‘rich people getting poorer’
Unpacking labiovelars
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 3:29 pm
by Man in Space
cheç
[tɕpø]
‘rich people getting poorer’
Glide fortition in the onset following a tautosyllabic voiceless consonant
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 4:33 pm
by Travis B.
cheç
[tɕpowe]
‘rich people getting poorer’
ø > owe
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2026 2:34 am
by foxcatdog
cheç
[powe]
‘rich people getting poorer’
*tɕp > *p
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2026 3:58 pm
by Man in Space
cheç
[pope]
‘rich people getting poorer’
*p…w > p…p
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2026 4:27 pm
by Travis B.
cheç
[pfofːe]
‘rich people getting poorer’
High German consonant shift.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2026 4:55 pm
by Man in Space
cheç
[pfofːe̥]
‘rich people getting poorer’
Devoicing of final vowels after geminate fricatives
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2026 4:57 pm
by Lērisama
pope
[pofːe̥]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Unshifted [p] spreads from a dialect that didn't undergo the shift as part of a koineisation process.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2026 5:34 pm
by Travis B.
pope
[pʰofːe̥]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
A compromise develops where initial /p/ is aspirated.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2026 8:28 pm
by foxcatdog
pope
[pʰofː]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Devoiced vowels lost
Quite a change from
chattǟtie
[xɑˈʰtɛːtɕe]
‘wagon hitch’
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2026 10:04 pm
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
pope
[pʰofə]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
word-final gemenation > schwa
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 2:16 am
by foxcatdog
pope
[ɸohə]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Chainshift Tenuis Stop > Aspirated Stop > Non-Sibilant Fricative > *h
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 10:07 am
by Travis B.
pope
[ɸoχə]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
h > χ