Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežika

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”) +‎ *-ika.

Noun

*ežika f

Declension

Declension of *ežika (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *ežika *ežicě *ežiky
genitive *ežiky *ežiku *ežikъ
dative *ežicě *ežikama *ežikamъ
accusative *ežikǫ *ežicě *ežiky
instrumental *ežikojǫ, *ežikǫ** *ežikama *ežikami
locative *ežicě *ežiku *ežikasъ, *ežikaxъ*
vocative *ežiko *ežicě *ežiky

* -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: *ожика (*ožika)
      • Belarusian: ажы́ка (ažýka)
      • Russian: ожи́ка (ožíka)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: јежика
      Latin script: ježika

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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