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- Japanese · borrowed from連濁“sequential voicing”
- English todayrendaku
Borrowed from Japanese 連濁 (rendaku, “sequential voicing”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
rendaku
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Japanese 連濁