れんじょう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of れんじょう – see the following entries.

【連声】 [noun] (linguistics) a morphological change of an initial syllable of the second kanji under the influence of the historical coda of the first kanji in a word, such as 天皇, whose pronunciation is not *ten’ō but tennō.

(This term, れんじょう, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 恋情, 連状, 連乗, 連城, 廉譲, 憐情.)