rendaku en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 連濁 (rendaku, “sequential voicing”).
Meanings
- (uncountable) 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. Examples include 時々 (ときどき, tokidoki; “sometimes”), 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.
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Translations (8)
pl rendaku (sequential voicing in Japanese) · fr rendaku (sequential voicing in Japanese) · ja 連濁 (sequential voicing in Japanese) · ko 연탁 (sequential voicing in Japanese) · cmn 連濁 /连浊 (sequential voicing in Japanese) · fr voisement séquentiel (sequential voicing in Japanese) · ro rendaku (sequential voicing in Japanese) · ru рэнда́ку (sequential voicing in Japanese)