rendaku
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Japanese 連濁 (rendaku, “sequential voicing”).
- borrowed from 連濁
Definitions
In the Japanese language, a phenomenon which governs the voicing of the initial consonant…
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".
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for rendaku. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA