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{
"etymology_text": "A 17th-century derivation from the stem of the verb skanēt (“to sound”) (q.v.): *skan-ya > skaņa, alongside the simpler (dialectal) form skans.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "declension-4",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "lv-decl-noun",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "4th declension",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņai",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņām",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņām",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "noun form",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "skaņa m",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "noun",
"g": "f",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "skaņa f",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "4th"
},
"expansion": "skaņa f (4th declension)",
"name": "lv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "skaņ",
"2": "a",
"3": "4th",
"extrawidth": "-60"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "skaņ",
"2": "a",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"drop-v": "",
"keep-s": "",
"x": "-60"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun-4"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "skaņa",
"10": "skaņām",
"11": "skaņā",
"12": "skaņās",
"13": "skaņa",
"14": "skaņas",
"16": "",
"2": "skaņas",
"3": "skaņu",
"4": "skaņas",
"5": "skaņas",
"6": "skaņu",
"7": "skaņai",
"8": "skaņām",
"9": "skaņu",
"type": "4th declension",
"x": "-60"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun-table"
}
],
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "divskanis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "līdzskanis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "patskanis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "skanēt"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 38 12 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latvian etymologies from LEV",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "skanis"
}
],
"glosses": [
"genitive singular of skanis"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-skaņa-lv-noun-ciq~wf1D",
"links": [
[
"skanis",
"skanis#Latvian"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal) genitive singular of skanis"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"form-of",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "lv",
"name": "Acoustics",
"orig": "lv:Acoustics",
"parents": [
"Applied sciences",
"Physics",
"Sound",
"Sciences",
"Energy",
"All topics",
"Nature",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "lv",
"name": "Physics",
"orig": "lv:Physics",
"parents": [
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "16 38 12 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latvian etymologies from LEV",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 32 34 35",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "lv",
"name": "Sound",
"orig": "lv:Sound",
"parents": [
"Energy",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "pitch (lit. sound height)",
"text": "skaņas augstums",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound frequency, speed",
"text": "skaņas frekvence, ātrums",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound volume, intensity, energy",
"text": "skaņas skaļums, intensitāte, enerģija",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound timbre, spectrum, pressure",
"text": "skaņas tembrs, spektrs, spiediens",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound scattering, attenuation",
"text": "skaņas izkliede, slāpēšana",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound source, isolation",
"text": "skaņas avots, izolācija",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"sound (wave-like vibrations in the air or some similar medium which are capable of causing auditory sensations)"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"id": "en-skaņa-lv-noun-hQHfKOsy",
"links": [
[
"physics",
"physics"
],
[
"acoustics",
"acoustics"
],
[
"sound",
"sound"
],
[
"wave",
"wave#English"
],
[
"vibration",
"vibration#English"
],
[
"air",
"air#English"
],
[
"similar",
"similar#English"
],
[
"medium",
"medium#English"
],
[
"capable",
"capable#English"
],
[
"causing",
"cause#English"
],
[
"auditory",
"auditory#English"
],
[
"sensation",
"sensation#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "acoustics",
"raw_glosses": [
"(physics, acoustics) sound (wave-like vibrations in the air or some similar medium which are capable of causing auditory sensations)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 38 12 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latvian etymologies from LEV",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 32 34 35",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "lv",
"name": "Sound",
"orig": "lv:Sound",
"parents": [
"Energy",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "high-pitched sound",
"text": "spalga skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "clear sound",
"text": "dzidra skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "hollow sounds",
"text": "dobjas skaņas",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "high, low sound",
"text": "augsta, zema skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "motor sound",
"text": "motora skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "organ (musical instrument) sounds",
"text": "ērģeļu skaņas",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "waltz sounds",
"text": "valša skaņas",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound recording",
"text": "skaņu ieraksts",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound scale",
"text": "skaņu skala",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound telegraph",
"text": "skaņas telegrāfs",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound cinema, sound film",
"text": "skaņu kino",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"sound (the auditory effect of these vibrations)"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"id": "en-skaņa-lv-noun-N6Dkou2r",
"links": [
[
"sound",
"sound"
],
[
"auditory",
"auditory#English"
],
[
"effect",
"effect#English"
],
[
"vibration",
"vibration#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "lv",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "lv:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "lv",
"name": "Phonetics",
"orig": "lv:Phonetics",
"parents": [
"Linguistics",
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "15 24 14 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latvian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 38 12 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latvian etymologies from LEV",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 30 29 38",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "lv",
"name": "Music",
"orig": "lv:Music",
"parents": [
"Art",
"Sound",
"Culture",
"Energy",
"Society",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 32 34 35",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "lv",
"name": "Sound",
"orig": "lv:Sound",
"parents": [
"Energy",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "language sound classification",
"text": "valodas skaņu klasifikācija",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "short, long sound",
"text": "īsa, gara skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound quantity, quality",
"text": "skaņu kvantitāte, kvalitāte",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "laryngeal sound",
"text": "laringāla skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound change",
"text": "skaņu mija",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"sound (smallest articulatory unit in language)"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"id": "en-skaņa-lv-noun-GUOsnER3",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"phonetics",
"phonetics"
],
[
"sound",
"sound"
],
[
"smallest",
"smallest#English"
],
[
"articulatory",
"articulatory#English"
],
[
"unit",
"unit#English"
],
[
"language",
"language#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics, phonetics) sound (smallest articulatory unit in language)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonetics",
"phonology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "skans"
}
],
"word": "skaņa"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latvian entries with incorrect language header",
"Latvian etymologies from LEV",
"Latvian feminine nouns",
"Latvian fourth declension nouns",
"Latvian lemmas",
"Latvian non-lemma forms",
"Latvian noun forms",
"Latvian nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"lv:Music",
"lv:Sound"
],
"etymology_text": "A 17th-century derivation from the stem of the verb skanēt (“to sound”) (q.v.): *skan-ya > skaņa, alongside the simpler (dialectal) form skans.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "declension-4",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "lv-decl-noun",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "4th declension",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņai",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņām",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņām",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "skaņas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "noun form",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "skaņa m",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lv",
"2": "noun",
"g": "f",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "skaņa f",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "4th"
},
"expansion": "skaņa f (4th declension)",
"name": "lv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "skaņ",
"2": "a",
"3": "4th",
"extrawidth": "-60"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "skaņ",
"2": "a",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"drop-v": "",
"keep-s": "",
"x": "-60"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun-4"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "skaņa",
"10": "skaņām",
"11": "skaņā",
"12": "skaņās",
"13": "skaņa",
"14": "skaņas",
"16": "",
"2": "skaņas",
"3": "skaņu",
"4": "skaņas",
"5": "skaņas",
"6": "skaņu",
"7": "skaņai",
"8": "skaņām",
"9": "skaņu",
"type": "4th declension",
"x": "-60"
},
"name": "lv-decl-noun-table"
}
],
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "divskanis"
},
{
"word": "līdzskanis"
},
{
"word": "patskanis"
},
{
"word": "skanēt"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latvian dialectal terms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "skanis"
}
],
"glosses": [
"genitive singular of skanis"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"skanis",
"skanis#Latvian"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal) genitive singular of skanis"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"form-of",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples",
"lv:Acoustics",
"lv:Physics"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "pitch (lit. sound height)",
"text": "skaņas augstums",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound frequency, speed",
"text": "skaņas frekvence, ātrums",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound volume, intensity, energy",
"text": "skaņas skaļums, intensitāte, enerģija",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound timbre, spectrum, pressure",
"text": "skaņas tembrs, spektrs, spiediens",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound scattering, attenuation",
"text": "skaņas izkliede, slāpēšana",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound source, isolation",
"text": "skaņas avots, izolācija",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"sound (wave-like vibrations in the air or some similar medium which are capable of causing auditory sensations)"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"links": [
[
"physics",
"physics"
],
[
"acoustics",
"acoustics"
],
[
"sound",
"sound"
],
[
"wave",
"wave#English"
],
[
"vibration",
"vibration#English"
],
[
"air",
"air#English"
],
[
"similar",
"similar#English"
],
[
"medium",
"medium#English"
],
[
"capable",
"capable#English"
],
[
"causing",
"cause#English"
],
[
"auditory",
"auditory#English"
],
[
"sensation",
"sensation#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "acoustics",
"raw_glosses": [
"(physics, acoustics) sound (wave-like vibrations in the air or some similar medium which are capable of causing auditory sensations)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "high-pitched sound",
"text": "spalga skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "clear sound",
"text": "dzidra skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "hollow sounds",
"text": "dobjas skaņas",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "high, low sound",
"text": "augsta, zema skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "motor sound",
"text": "motora skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "organ (musical instrument) sounds",
"text": "ērģeļu skaņas",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "waltz sounds",
"text": "valša skaņas",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound recording",
"text": "skaņu ieraksts",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound scale",
"text": "skaņu skala",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound telegraph",
"text": "skaņas telegrāfs",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound cinema, sound film",
"text": "skaņu kino",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"sound (the auditory effect of these vibrations)"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"links": [
[
"sound",
"sound"
],
[
"auditory",
"auditory#English"
],
[
"effect",
"effect#English"
],
[
"vibration",
"vibration#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples",
"lv:Linguistics",
"lv:Phonetics"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "language sound classification",
"text": "valodas skaņu klasifikācija",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "short, long sound",
"text": "īsa, gara skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound quantity, quality",
"text": "skaņu kvantitāte, kvalitāte",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "laryngeal sound",
"text": "laringāla skaņa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "sound change",
"text": "skaņu mija",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"sound (smallest articulatory unit in language)"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"phonetics",
"phonetics"
],
[
"sound",
"sound"
],
[
"smallest",
"smallest#English"
],
[
"articulatory",
"articulatory#English"
],
[
"unit",
"unit#English"
],
[
"language",
"language#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics, phonetics) sound (smallest articulatory unit in language)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-4",
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonetics",
"phonology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "skans"
}
],
"word": "skaņa"
}
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