Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežica

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *ežь (“hedgehog”) +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*ežica f

  1. female hedgehog

Declension

Declension of *ežica (soft a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *ežica *ežici *ežicę̇
genitive *ežicę̇ *ežicu *ežicь
dative *ežici *ežicama *ežicamъ
accusative *ežicǫ *ežici *ežicę̇
instrumental *ežicejǫ, *ežicǫ** *ežicama *ežicami
locative *ežici *ežicu *ežicasъ, *ežicaxъ*
vocative *ežice *ežici *ežicę̇

* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *ежица (*ježica)
      • Ukrainian: ї́жи́ця (jížýcja) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: јѐжица
      Latin script: jèžica
    • Slovene: ježíca
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežica / *ežika”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 35
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