English
Etymology
From down- + step.
Noun
downstep (plural downsteps)
- A downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
Descendants
- → Japanese: ダウンステップ (daunsuteppu)
Translations
Translations
- Danish: trin ned n
- Estonian: allaastuv
- Greek: κατάβαση (el) f (katávasi)
- Italian: abbassato (it) m
- Japanese: ダウンステップ (daunsuteppu)
- Lithuanian: šúolis žemỹn m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nedsteg n
- Nynorsk: nedsteg n
- Polish: uskok (pl) m
- Swedish: nedsteg n
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Verb
downstep (third-person singular simple present downsteps, present participle downstepping, simple past and past participle downstepped)
- To apply a downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
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