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Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 11:54 am
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
pope
[ɸoχe]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
vowels strengthen following dorsals.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 12:01 pm
by Man in Space
pope
[oχe]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Loss of *ɸ before rounded vowels
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 12:15 pm
by Travis B.
pope
[wɒχe]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
o > wɒ
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 12:18 pm
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
pope
[wæχe]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
umlaut.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 12:23 pm
by Travis B.
pope
[wɑχæ]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Uvular-coloring.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 3:53 pm
by Lērisama
pope
[wɑhæ]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Debuccalisation
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 4:36 pm
by Travis B.
pope
[wɑçæ]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Palatalization before front vowels.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 6:40 pm
by Man in Space
pope
[jæçæ]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Regressive palatalization
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 6:55 pm
by Travis B.
pope
[ɟʝæcçæ]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Fortition of palatals.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 10:08 pm
by foxcatdog
pope
[ɟʝacça]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Vowels collapse back into a five vowel system
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 10:14 pm
by foxcatdog
New Word
[ˈnɔk.kus]
nọkkus
“wolverine”
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 10:19 pm
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
gaka
[gɣakxa]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
depalatalization.
nọkkus
[ˈnɔxus]
‘wolverine’
geminates > fricatives
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 10:25 pm
by foxcatdog
gaka
[ɣakxa]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
*gɣ > *ɣ
nọkkus
[ˈnɔxəs]
‘endonym’
*u > *ə between a non coronal and a coronal
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2026 12:48 pm
by Travis B.
gaka
[ʁakxa]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
ɣ > ʁ
nọkkus
[ˈnɔχəs]
‘endonym’
Velars back after back vowels.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2026 4:41 pm
by foxcatdog
rẹkx
[ʁɛkx]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Vowel loss with compensatory dissimilation of identical vowels
nọkkus
[ˈnɔχɔsə]
‘endonym’
*ə+Coronal# > *ɔ+Coronal+ə
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:12 pm
by Man in Space
rẹkx
[ʁɛkʲʃ]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Progressive palatalization
nọkkus
[ˈnɔɔsə]
‘endonym’
*χ > Ø / V_V
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:55 pm
by Travis B.
rẹkx
[ʁɛkʲiʃ]
‘rich people getting poorer, lavish spending’
Epenthesis.
nọkkus
[ˈnausə]
‘endonym’
Dissimilation.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2026 8:46 am
by Starbeam
rẹkx
[ɢʁɛkʲiʃ]
‘conspicuous consumption’
prosthetic initial plosive
naus
[ˈnaus]
‘endonym’
loss of word-final shwa
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2026 10:31 am
by Travis B.
rẹkx
[ˈqχɛkʲiʃ]
‘conspicuous consumption’
Initial devoicing.
naus
[ˈnawus]
‘endonym’
Insertion of glide.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2026 2:18 pm
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
rẹkx
[ˈqχɛciʃ]
‘conspicuous consumption’
[kʲ] > [c].
naus
[ˈnawuh]
‘endonym’
word-final lenition.