Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežina

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”) +‎ *-ina.

Compare with Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰis (“hedgehog”) + *-iHnos.

Noun

*ežina f

Declension

Declension of *ežina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ežina	*ežině	*ežiny
genitive	*ežiny	*ežinu	*ežinъ
dative	*ežině	*ežinama	*ežinamъ
accusative	*ežinǫ	*ežině	*ežiny
instrumental	ežinojǫ, ežinǫ^**	*ežinama	*ežinami
locative	*ežině	*ežinu	ežinasъ, ežinaxъ^*
vocative	*ežino	*ežině	*ežiny

^* -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).

Related terms

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *ежина (*ježina), *ожина (*ožina)
  - Old Ruthenian: ожи́на (ožína)
    - Belarusian: ажы́на (ažýna)
    - Ukrainian: ожи́на (ožýna), ожи́ни pl (ožíni)
      - → Yiddish: אָזשענע (ozhene)
  - Russian: ожи́на f (ožína), ожи́н m (ožín) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: јѐжина
  
  Latin script: jèžina
  ⇒ Cyrillic script: јежиница
  
  ⇒ Latin script: ježinica
- Slovene: jéžinja
West Slavic:
- Czech: ježiny pl
  - ⇒ Czech: ježiník m
- Polish: jeżyna, ożyna; jezina, jażyna (dialectal)
- Slovak: ožina