rendaku

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Japanese 連濁 (rendaku, “sequential voicing”). === Noun === rendaku (uncountable) (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 ==== ==== See also ==== Category:Japanese terms with rendaku === Anagrams === unraked == Japanese == === Romanization === rendaku Rōmaji transcription of れんだく