尾高型
Japanese Edit
Kanji in this term | ||
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尾 | 高 | 型 |
お Grade: S |
たか > だか Grade: 2 |
かた > がた Grade: 5 |
kun’yomi |
Etymology Edit
Compound of 尾高 (odaka, “tail high”) + 型 (kata, “form”), in reference to the last mora of the word (the "tail") having the accent, followed by a downstep.[1] The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
尾高型 • (odakagata) ←をだかがた (wodakagata)?
- a pitch accent pattern in Japanese where the first mora is low pitch, then the pitch is high until the final and accented mora, followed by an immediate downstep with any following particle or other unaccented word having low pitch