Noun: pašskanis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | pašskanis |
| Accusative | pašskani |
| Genitive | pašskaņa |
| Dative | pašskanim |
| Instrumental | pašskani |
| Locative | pašskanī |
| Vocative | pašskani |
Plural
| Nominative | pašskaņi |
| Accusative | pašskaņus |
| Genitive | pašskaņu |
| Dative | pašskaņiem |
| Instrumental | pašskaņiem |
| Locative | pašskaņos |
| Vocative | pašskaņi |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like pašskanis
sapnis,
sainis,
skanis,
sniegputenis,
bārenis,
lentenis,
spēkonis,
zvīnis,
zirnis,
sūknis,
ukrainis,
spilvenis,
stundenis,
gavēnis,
ūdenstornis,
skaļrunis,
kustonis,
gubumākonis,
stulbenis,
līdzskanis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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.
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