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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežikъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *ežь (“hedgehog”) + *-ikъ (“diminutive suffix”).
Noun
*ežikъ m
- hedgehog
Declension
Declension of *ežikъ (hard o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *ežikъ | *ežika | *ežici |
Accusative | *ežikъ | *ežika | *ežiky |
Genitive | *ežika | *ežiku | *ežikъ |
Locative | *ežicě | *ežiku | *ežicěxъ |
Dative | *ežiku | *ežikoma | *ežikomъ |
Instrumental | *ežikъmь, *ežikomь* | *ežikoma | *ežiky |
Vocative | *ežiče | *ežika | *ežici |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *ežakъ
- *eževъ(jь)
- *eževica, *eževika
- *eževina
- *ežica, *ežika
- *ežina
- *ežiti (sę)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *ежикъ (*ežikŭ), *ожикъ (*ožikŭ)
- Old Belarusian: ожикъ (ožikŭ)
- Belarusian: во́жык (vóžyk)
- Russian: ёжик (jóžik)
- Ukrainian: ї́жик (jížyk) (dialectal)
- Old Belarusian: ожикъ (ožikŭ)
- Old East Slavic: *ежикъ (*ežikŭ), *ожикъ (*ožikŭ)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: е́же̂к (éžêk) (dialectal)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: ježík
- Polish: jeżyk
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: ježyk
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežikъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 6: (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 36