pašskanis

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.[1]

Noun

pašskanis m (2nd declension)

  1. idiophone
  2. obsolete form of patskanis

Declension

Declension of pašskanis (2nd declension)
singular plural
nominative pašskanis pašskaņi
genitive pašskaņa pašskaņu
dative pašskanim pašskaņiem
accusative pašskani pašskaņus
instrumental pašskani pašskaņiem
locative pašskanī pašskaņos
vocative pašskani pašskaņi

References

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