pašskanis

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Latvian

Etymology

From paš (“a form of pats “self””) +‎ skan(ēt) (“to sound”). A calque of German Selbstlaut (“vowel”), it was coined by A. Kronvalds in the 1860s and later changed by him to its modern form patskanis.

Noun

pašskanis m (2nd declension)

  1. idiophone
  2. obsolete form of patskanis

Declension

Declension of pašskanis (2nd declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) pašskanis pašskaņi
accusative (akuzatīvs) pašskani pašskaņus
genitive (ģenitīvs) pašskaņa pašskaņu
dative (datīvs) pašskanim pašskaņiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) pašskani pašskaņiem
locative (lokatīvs) pašskanī pašskaņos
vocative (vokatīvs) pašskani pašskaņi

References

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