Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/eževika
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Proto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *eževъ (“hedgehog-related”) + *-ika.
Noun
[edit]*eževika f
Declension
[edit]Declension of *eževika (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *eževika | *eževicě | *eževiky |
genitive | *eževiky | *eževiku | *eževikъ |
dative | *eževicě | *eževikama | *eževikamъ |
accusative | *eževikǫ | *eževicě | *eževiky |
instrumental | *eževikojǫ, *eževikǫ** | *eževikama | *eževikami |
locative | *eževicě | *eževiku | *eževikasъ, *eževikaxъ* |
vocative | *eževiko | *eževicě | *eževiky |
* -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).
** 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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*eževica / *eževika”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 35