Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežakъ

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”) +‎ *-akъ (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

*ežàkъ m

1. hedgehog

Declension

Declension of *ežakъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ežakъ	*ežaka	*ežaci
genitive	*ežaka	*ežaku	*ežakъ
dative	*ežaku	*ežakoma	*ežakomъ
accusative	*ežakъ	*ežaka	*ežaky
instrumental	*ežakъmь, *ežakomь*	*ežakoma	*ežaky
locative	*ežacě	*ežaku	*ežacěxъ
vocative	*ežače	*ežaka	*ežaci

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *ežikъ
• *eževъ(jь)
  • *eževica, *eževika
  • *eževina
• *ežica, *ežika
• *ežina
• *ežiti (sę)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *ежакъ (*ežakŭ)
    • Russian: ежа́к (ježák) (regional)
    • Ukrainian: їжа́к (jižák); єжу́к (ježúk) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: їжачи́ч (jižačýč) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ježák
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: jěžak

Further reading

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