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A term coined by Atis Kronvalds in the second half of the 19th century, from līdz(i)(“(together) with”) + skan(ēt)(“to sound”), made into a 2nd-declension noun (ending -is). It is a calque of GermanMitlaut, from mit(“with”) and Laut(“sound”), itself a calque of Latincōnsonans, from cōn-(“with”) and sonō(“to sound”).
It (and its alternative form līdzskaņa) competed with other proposed coinages, such as K. Biezbārdis' klaudzis and M. Kaudzīte's neskanis, until the end of the 19th century. After J. Endzelīns' and K. Mīlenbahs' 1907 Latviešu Gramatika, the form līdzskanis stabilized. It became accepted as a standard linguistic term in the 1920s.[1]
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