テレビ

テレビ · terebi · JLPT N5 · noun

television

📺 terebi = clipped English: tere-bi(jon) → television

Japanese borrowed television as terebijon, then chopped it to the first three beats: te-re-bi. Japanese has no L or V, so L becomes R and V becomes B — tele-vi turns into tere-bi.

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