pašskaņa

      See also pašskaņā

      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.[1]

      Noun

      pašskaņa m

      1. (obsolete form) genitive singular form of pašskanis

      pašskaņa f, 4th declension

      1. obsolete form of patskanis

      Declension

      References

      1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns. 1992, 2001. Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: AVOTS. ISBN 9984700127.
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