Latvian edit

Etymology edit

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 By the end of the 19th century, it had been replaced by līdzskanis, a word coined by A. Kronvalds in the 1860s.[1]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 edit

neskanis m (2nd declension)

  1. (obsolete term) consonant

Declension edit

Synonyms edit

References edit

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