Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežika

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”) +‎ *-ika.

Noun

*ežika f

Declension

Declension of *ežika (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ežika	*ežicě	*ežiky
genitive	*ežiky	*ežiku	*ežikъ
dative	*ežicě	*ežikama	*ežikamъ
accusative	*ežikǫ	*ežicě	*ežiky
instrumental	*ežikojǫ, *ežikǫ**	*ežikama	*ežikami
locative	*ežicě	*ežiku	*ežikasъ, *ežikaxъ*
vocative	*ežiko	*ežicě	*ežiky

^* -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
  • *eževina
• *ežica
• *ežina
• *ežiti (sę)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *ожика (*ožika)
    • Belarusian: ажы́ка (ažýka)
    • Russian: ожи́ка (ožíka)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: јежика

    Latin script: ježika

Further reading

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