Romance-Specific Word Evolution Game
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 11:18 pm
What if you took a word, any word, and subjected it to a series of more-or-less random sound changes (a la the word evolution game), but you could only apply sound changes attested in one specific language family?
I give you, Stickstoff, the German word for nitrogen. Do science to it, but only use sound changes that have happened to some Romance language at some time in the last two thousand years.
I'll go first: initial sC or SC clusters get an epenthetic initial vowel (source: Western Vulgar Latin).
/StIkstOf/ > /EStikstOf/
I give you, Stickstoff, the German word for nitrogen. Do science to it, but only use sound changes that have happened to some Romance language at some time in the last two thousand years.
I'll go first: initial sC or SC clusters get an epenthetic initial vowel (source: Western Vulgar Latin).
/StIkstOf/ > /EStikstOf/