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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežina
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *ežь (“hedgehog”) + *-ina.
Compare with Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰis (“hedgehog”) + *-iHnos.
Noun
*ežina f
Declension
Declension of *ežina (hard a-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *ežina | *ežině | *ežiny |
Accusative | *ežinǫ | *ežině | *ežiny |
Genitive | *ežiny | *ežinu | *ežinъ |
Locative | *ežině | *ežinu | *ežinasъ, *ežinaxъ* |
Dative | *ežině | *ežinama | *ežinamъ |
Instrumental | *ežinojǫ, *ežinǫ** | *ežinama | *ežinami |
Vocative | *ežino | *ežině | *ežiny |
* -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
- *ežakъ, *ežikъ
- *eževъ(jь)
- *eževica, *eževika
- *eževina
- *ežica, *ežika
- *ežiti (sę)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *ежина (*ežina), *ожина (*ožina)
- Belarusian: ажи́на (ažína)
- Russian: ожи́на f (ožína), ожи́н m (ožín) (dialectal)
- Old Ukrainian: ожи́на (ožína)
- Ukrainian: ожи́на (ožýna), ожи́ни pl (ožíni)
- → Yiddish: אָזשענע (ozhene)
- Ukrainian: ожи́на (ožýna), ожи́ни pl (ožíni)
- Old East Slavic: *ежина (*ežina), *ожина (*ožina)
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: јѐжина
- Latin: jèžina
- ⇒ Cyrillic: јежиница
- ⇒ Latin: ježinica
- Slovene: jéžinja
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: ježiny pl
- ⇒ Czech: ježiník m
- Polish: jeżyna, ożyna; jezina, jażyna (dialectal)
- Slovak: ožina
- Czech: ježiny pl
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 36