[zʷœnʧ]
The labialization of z makes the ɛ rounded.

And the labialization assimilates to the roundedness of the vowel.

[zœnʧ]

Now, this starts to look Germanic to me.

It actually looks more French to me, since I'm de-affricating.

[zœnʃ]

[zœ̃ ʃ]
[n] is lost and the vowel regains nasalization.
Sorry my computer didn't handle the nasal sign very well.

Alveolar consonants become alveo-palatal before front vowels.

[ʑœ̃ʃ]

[œ] fronted to [ø].
[ʑø̃ ʃ]

Co-articulated palatalized postalveolar consonants merge with postalveolar consonants to become just postalveolar.

[ʒø̃ʃ]

Also, what could be some strategies to make the word longer? Create a conjugation for present participles (if they are still different from the plain form?)?


I thought the vowel in -ing was [ɪ], not [i]... Anyhow, it's not crucial for the game anyways. (It would have survived for page and a half until reaching the final stage of [ɪə̯] just to become an [e:] monophthong.)

I take it when the word is whittled down enough, it becomes a mere enclitic and we start over.

De-nasalization again:

[ʒøʃ]

It is. I took that as the first change of the game.

Breaking of the vowel:

[ʒʏɘʃ]