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

sequential voicing in Japanese

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連濁／连浊 (zh) (liánzhuó)

• Japanese: 連濁 (ja) (れんだく, rendaku)
• Korean: 연탁(連濁) (yeontak)
• Romanian: rendaku n
• Russian: рэнда́ку (ru) (rɛndáku)

See also

• Category:Japanese terms with rendaku

Anagrams

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Japanese

Romanization

rendaku

1. Rōmaji transcription of れんだく