patskaņa

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Latvian

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Etymology

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From 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

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patskaņa m

  1. genitive singular of patskanis

patskaņa f (4th declension)

  1. 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