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- Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
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Re: Word evolution game
Disaffrication: ['vœː.ʒa] vueja "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [wj] > [ɥ]: ['gɥa] gyua "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
Let's have a dialect split, then — [u̯ɛ] > [øː] ['vøː.d͡ʒa] vueja "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [ɛj] > i ['gwi.ja] wéoje "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
[ɞj] > [u̯ɛj]
['vu̯ɛj.ja]
wéorle
"(highly formal, now chiefly archaising) mother; (of a woman of higher ranking than the speaker) Mrs.; (with titles of office, as "secretary", "prime minister") madam; (of judges, justices) your honour"
['vu̯ɛj.ja]
wéorle
"(highly formal, now chiefly archaising) mother; (of a woman of higher ranking than the speaker) Mrs.; (with titles of office, as "secretary", "prime minister") madam; (of judges, justices) your honour"
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
[ə] > [a]
['vɵ˞ː.ja]
wéorle
"(highly formal) mother; madam, Mrs.”
['vɵ˞ː.ja]
wéorle
"(highly formal) mother; madam, Mrs.”
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
Denasalisation
['vɵ˞ː.lə]
wéorle
“mother; madam, Mrs.”
['vɵ˞ː.lə]
wéorle
“mother; madam, Mrs.”
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
[ʙw] > [wɹ]
['wɹɵ̃ː.lə]
wrǫ́le
“mother”
['wɹɵ̃ː.lə]
wrǫ́le
“mother”
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
[mʙ] > [ʙ]
['ʙu̯ɵ̃ː.lɛ]
muǫ́le
“mother”
['ʙu̯ɵ̃ː.lɛ]
muǫ́le
“mother”
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
Quantitative metathesis:
['mu̯ɵ̃ː.lɛ]
muǫ́le
“mother”
['mu̯ɵ̃ː.lɛ]
muǫ́le
“mother”
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
[aː] > [ɛː]
['mɔ̃.lɛː]
mǫlē
“mother”
['mɔ̃.lɛː]
mǫlē
“mother”
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
Vowels back and round following a labial initial:
[’mɔ̃.daː]
mantā
“mother”
[’mɔ̃.daː]
mantā
“mother”
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
Coda glottal stops lost with compensatory lengthening:
[’mã.taː]
mantā
“mother”
[’mã.taː]
mantā
“mother”
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 969
- Views: 477487
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
*p *t *k *kʷ p t c cw *β *ð *z *ɣ b d z g *ɬ *s *sʲ *x *h lh s sy ch h *r *l r l *m *n *nʲ m, n, ny *i *u i u *ɛ *ɔ e o *a a Words: *nɛti *sʲina *ɛssʲu *saða *mixan *nɔra *sɛnisʲ *pɔlxa *luni *iskɛ *ðana *tausi *pilɛi *xaɣa *sɛβi *tɔrta *nɛssʲii *ɛnʲasʲ *mɛnɛ *ɬua *hanu *asaha *ɬazi *sapaɬ neti , sy...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027563
Re: Venting thread
This also seems accurate, though inertia is also quite strong in many of these offices. When I had to order an apostilled birth certificate copy to move to the Netherlands, that was quite an... erm, "adventure", shall we say: it had to be ordered by mail, using only postal money orders (b...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: The problem of "finding the right word"?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2931
Re: The problem of "finding the right word"?
There is also "people-ish". :D I usually just go with whatever the people who speak it would call themselves. And half of the time doesn't that translate to "the people" or just "people"? Not sure how often that happens, but a word for "people" does seem to e...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
[j] (and also [g z] before [i]) > [ʑ]:
[ʑaːʃ]
giáč
"wolf"
[ʑaːʃ]
giáč
"wolf"
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: The problem of "finding the right word"?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2931
Re: The problem of "finding the right word"?
I usually just go with whatever the people who speak it would call themselves.Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:39 pmThere is also "people-ish".Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:42 pm Also, there's no reason a language has to be named after its own word for "speech".
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:43 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 969
- Views: 477487
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
Is that what we're calling it now?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
[æː] > [jaː]
[’ʎjaː.tʃa]
liácia
"wolf"
[’ʎjaː.tʃa]
liácia
"wolf"
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
[k] > [tʃ] before [a æ e i]
[’ʎæ̃:.tʃaː]
liénciá
"wolf"
[’ʎæ̃:.tʃaː]
liénciá
"wolf"
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2653
- Views: 274350
Re: Word evolution game
Further a-colouring
[’ʎæ:.ŋkaː]
liégcá
"wolf"
[’ʎæ:.ŋkaː]
liégcá
"wolf"