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rendaku

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Noun — In Japanese, the change that makes the first consonant of the second part of a compound word become voiced, for example when kami changes to gami in origami.

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Etymology

Rendaku was borrowed from Japanese 連濁 (rendaku, “sequential voicing”).

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