Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežь

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

*ežь (Erinaceus concolor)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *eźis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰis (“hedgehog”). Compare with *ǵʰḗr.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian ežys, regional ẽżis and Latvian ezis. Other Indo-European cognates include Phrygian ἔξις (éxis) (read ἔζις (ézis)), Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos), Old English igil (English ile), Old High German igil (German Igel), Old Armenian ոզնի (ozni), Old Norse ígull, Ossetian уызын (wyzyn), Albanian eshk.

Noun

*ežь m[1]

1. hedgehog

Declension

Declension of *ežь (soft o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*ežь	*eža	*eži
Accusative	*ežь	*eža	*ežę̇
Genitive	*eža	*ežu	*ežь
Locative	*eži	*ežu	*ežixъ
Dative	*ežu	*ežema	*ežemъ
Instrumental	*ežьmь, *ežemь*	*ežema	*eži
Vocative	*ežu	*eža	*eži

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ѥжь (ježĭ), ежь (ežĭ), ожь (ožĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: єжъ (jež), ѣжъ (ěž)
      • Rusyn: ї́жо (jížo)
        • ⇒ Rusyn: ї́жко (jížko)
      • Ukrainian: їж (již), йіж (již), іж (iž), їжо́ (jižó), іжо́ (ižó), ож (ož) (dialectal)
    • Middle Russian: ежъ (jež), ожъ (ož)
      • Russian: ёж (jož); еж (jež) (dialectal); іож (iož), йож (jož), иож (iož), ежь (ježʹ) (dated)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: ѥжь (ježĭ) (Serbian)
  • Bulgarian: еж (ež); еш (eš) (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: таралеж (taralež)
  • Macedonian: еж (ež)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: је̑ж; је̑жа (dialectal)

    Latin: jȇž; jȇža (dialectal)

  • Slovene: jẹ̄ž
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: jež (dialectal)
  • Kashubian: jéż
  • Polabian: jiz
  • Old Polish: jeż
    • Polish: jeż; wież, wjiż (dialectal)
  • Slovak: jež
  • Slovincian: jěi̯ž
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: jaž, jež
    • Upper Sorbian: jěž

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 37
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ёж”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “їж”, in Етимологічний словник української мови: у 7 т. [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 7 vols] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 323

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ežь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 149: “m. jo ‘hedgehog’”