Let's play historical linguistics | Historical Linguistics Challenge S02E01

[@pablomorralla3256]

me in school recess: who wants to play historical linguistics? :D

[@Thelaretus]

I would guess the words /lodɨ̄/ and /luðiŋuk/ are themselves cognates, and the proto-word includes word number 2, which I would reconstruct *diŋ. So maybe the original word meant 'people of the light' (words 15+2)? (EDIT: /tiŋluχo/ seems to be the same, with phonemes reversed). Now, this might be technically cheating, but apparently the cognate groups are ordered alphabetically by the proto-word. So this might give you an unintended clue as for the original phonemes in the proto-language.

[@friendly_sitie]

B & E look like a branch