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nāsenis

Latvian

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Etymology

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Coined in the 1920s, from nāss (“nostril”) +‎ -enis.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nāsenis m (2nd declension)

  1. (phonetics, phonology) nasal consonant (a consonant articulated simultaneously with nasal airflow; e.g., m, n)
    sanskrita nāsenis ñ ir pielāgojošs alofons līdzskanim n ― the Sanskrit nasal consonant ñ is an assimilating allophone of the consonant n

Declension

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Declension of nāsenis (2nd declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) nāsenis nāseņi
accusative (akuzatīvs) nāseni nāseņus
genitive (ģenitīvs) nāseņa nāseņu
dative (datīvs) nāsenim nāseņiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) nāseni nāseņiem
locative (lokatīvs) nāsenī nāseņos
vocative (vokatīvs) nāseni nāseņi
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References

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