pašskaņa

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Latvian

Etymology

From paš (a form of pats “self”) +‎ skaņa (sound). A calque of German Selbstlaut (vowel), it was, until the beginning of the 20th century, one of the competing variants of the term patskanis, coined by A. Kronvalds in the 1860s.

Noun

pašskaņa m

  1. (obsolete) genitive singular of pašskanis

pašskaņa f (4th declension)

  1. obsolete form of patskanis

Declension

References

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