See also: pašskaņā

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

pašskaņa m

  1. (obsolete) genitive singular of pašskanis

pašskaņa f (4th declension)

  1. obsolete form of patskanis

Declension edit

References edit

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