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Compound of 送り(okuri, “sending”, the 連用形(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 送る(okuru, “to send”), from the sense of sending something afterward or adding something on the end) + 仮名(kana, “kana”, the Japanese syllabary characters). The kana changes to gana as an instance of rendaku (連濁).