Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/eževina

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 *eževъ (“hedgehog-related”) +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*eževina f

Declension

Declension of *eževina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*eževina	*eževině	*eževiny
genitive	*eževiny	*eževinu	*eževinъ
dative	*eževině	*eževinama	*eževinamъ
accusative	*eževinǫ	*eževině	*eževiny
instrumental	*eževinojǫ, *eževinǫ**	*eževinama	*eževinami
locative	*eževině	*eževinu	*eževinasъ, *eževinaxъ*
vocative	*eževino	*eževině	*eževiny

^* -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

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: жаві́ны (žavíny), жеви́ны (žjevíny); ажаві́на (ažavína) (dialectal)
  • Russian: ежеви́на (ježevína), ежо́вина (ježóvina)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ежови́на (ežovína); е́жо̣вина (éžọvina) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: јежевина, ежевина, јѐжевина, је́жевина

    Latin script: ježevina, eževina, jèževina, jéževina

  • Slovene: ježevína
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ježovina

Further reading

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