rendaku

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 連濁 (rendaku, “sequential voicing”).

Noun

rendaku (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) In the Japanese language, a phenomenon which governs the voicing of the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word. An example is 時々 (ときどき, tokidoki), where the second, iterative element "-toki" becomes "-doki" and 折り紙 (おりがみ, origami) where the word 紙 (かみ, kami; paper) becomes "gami".

Synonyms
  • sequential voicing

Translations

See also
  • Category:Japanese terms with rendaku

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

rendaku

  1. Rōmaji transcription of れんだく
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