rendaku

noun

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from 連濁

Definitions

  1. 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.

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