エスカレーター
エスカレーター · esukareetaa · JLPT N4 · noun
escalator clause
🛗 esukareetaa = English escalator, respelled in katakana
A loanword from English. Japanese adds a vowel after each consonant: es-ka-le-tor becomes e-su-ka-ree-taa. The long marks ー stretch the ree and taa, echoing the stressed and final syllables of the English word.