eža

See also: eza, -eza, -êza, and ežā

Latvian

Etymology 1

See ezis.

Noun

eža m

1. genitive singular of ezis

Etymology 2

From Proto-Baltic *ež-i̯ā-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰ- (“edge, border”).

Cognates include Lithuanian ežià, dialectal ežė̃, ezìs (compare 17th-century Latvian ezis), Proto-Slavic *ězъ (Russian regional еж (jež, “weir, woven river dam for catching fish”), Belarusian яз (jaz, “weir, woven river dam for catching fish”), Bulgarian яз (jaz, “dam, weir”), Czech jez (“dam, weir”), Polish jaz (“mill dam, weir”)), Old Armenian եզր (ezr, “coast, edge, border”).

Noun

eža f (4th declension)

1. balk; unlabored, grass-covered narrow strip of land (between fields, at the side of a road, implicitly marking a boundary)

   uz ežas bija samesti no lauka novāktie akmeņi ― stones collected from the field were thrown on the balk

   pa ežu starp miežu un zirņu laukiem kāds jau aizgājis ― someone has already gone by the balk between the barley and pea fields

Declension

Declension of eža (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	eža	ežas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	ežu	ežas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	ežas	ežu
dative (datīvs)	ežai	ežām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	ežu	ežām
locative (lokatīvs)	ežā	ežās
vocative (vokatīvs)	eža	ežas