pašskanis

Latvian

Etymology

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.

Noun

pašskanis m (2nd declension)

1. idiophone
2. obsolete form of patskanis

Declension

Declension of pašskanis (2nd declension)

	singular	plural
nominative	pašskanis	pašskaņi
genitive	pašskaņa	pašskaņu
dative	pašskanim	pašskaņiem
accusative	pašskani	pašskaņus
instrumental	pašskani	pašskaņiem
locative	pašskanī	pašskaņos
vocative	pašskani	pašskaņi