English

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

See also

• Category:Japanese rendaku

Anagrams

• unraked

Japanese

Romanization

rendaku

1. rōmaji reading of れんだく