Noun: skanis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | skanis |
| Accusative | skani |
| Genitive | skaņa |
| Dative | skanim |
| Instrumental | skani |
| Locative | skanī |
| Vocative | skani |
Plural
| Nominative | skaņi |
| Accusative | skaņus |
| Genitive | skaņu |
| Dative | skaņiem |
| Instrumental | skaņiem |
| Locative | skaņos |
| Vocative | skaņi |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like skanis
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
A term coined in 1869 by Kaspars Biezbārdis, from the stem of skanēt (“to sound”) (q.v.; see also skaņa (“sound”)), and later replaced by A. Kronvalds coinage patskanis.
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