Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežiti

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”) +‎ *-iti +‎ *sę.

Verb

*ežiti (sę)

  1. to bristle, to horripilate
  2. to shiver (with/from), shrink (from) shudder (at)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *ежити сѧ (*ježiti sę)
      • Russian: ёжиться (jóžitʹsja)
      • Ukrainian: ї́жити (jížyty), ї́житися (jížytysja)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: е́жа се (éža se) (rare); е́жа съ (éža s), е́жъ съ (éž s), йе́жъ съ (jéž s), е́жим се (éžim se), е́жум съ (éžum s) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: ежи се (eži se)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: је́жити се
      Latin script: jéžiti se
    • Slovene: jéžíti se
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: ježiti; ježit se (dialectal)
    • Polish: jeżyć
    • Slovak: ježiť, ježiťsa
    • Slovincian: jêżëc
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: ježyś se

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 36
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