るぜめ

Japanese

Alternative spelling
る攻め

Etymology

From る (ru, syllable) + 攻(せ)め (seme, “attacking”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 攻(せ)める (semeru, “to attack”).). The seme changes to zeme as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɾɯ̟ᵝze̞me̞]

Noun

るぜめ • (ru-zeme) 

1. (shiritori) "ru-attacking": producing words that end with -ru , forcing the opponent to produce words that begin with ru- (a difficult task, as they are few in number and the majority are Western loanwords)