neskanis

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Latvian

Etymology

A word coined in the second half of the 19th century by Matīss Kaudzīte, from ne- (not) +‎ skanis (vowel). By the end of the 19th century, it had been replaced by līdzskanis, a word coined by A. Kronvalds in the 1860s.[1]

Noun

neskanis m (2nd declension)

  1. (obsolete term) consonant

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References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “līdzskanis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN