pašskanis

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Latvian

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Etymology

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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

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pašskanis m (2nd declension)

  1. idiophone
  2. obsolete form of patskanis

Declension

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References

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