patskaņa

See also: patskaņā

Latvian

Etymology

From 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.[1]

Noun

patskaņa m

  1. genitive singular of patskanis

patskaņa f (4th declension)

  1. obsolete form of patskanis

Declension

Declension of patskaņa (4th declension)
singular plural
nominative patskaņa patskaņas
genitive patskaņas patskaņu
dative patskaņai patskaņām
accusative patskaņu patskaņas
instrumental patskaņu patskaņām
locative patskaņā patskaņās
vocative patskaņa patskaņas

References

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