連音: sandhi; trill; (linguistics) liaison / 漣音: mordent

ripple / (of tears) continuously flowing

lotus / lotus root / arrowroot

a wrench (hand tool)

love, especially romantic or erotic love

to fall in love

(grammar) an inflectional category: the continuative or stem form for verbs, the adverbial form for adjectives

(linguistics) a morphological change of an initial syllable of the second word of a compound in Japanese from an unvoiced sound to a corresponding voiced one (more precisely, a change to the sound of corresponding kana with a 濁点).

federation; alliance; association

(grammar) an adnominal (attributive word: cannot be used predicatively and must precede a 体言 (taigen, “uninflecting word”) in Japanese grammar; examples are この (kono, “this”), 所謂 (iwayuru, “so-called”), 主たる (shu-taru, “main”), 単なる (tan-naru, “mere”), etc.)