Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežikъ

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”) +‎ *-ikъ (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

*ežikъ m

1. hedgehog

Declension

Declension of *ežikъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ežikъ	*ežika	*ežici
genitive	*ežika	*ežiku	*ežikъ
dative	*ežiku	*ežikoma	*ežikomъ
accusative	*ežikъ	*ežika	*ežiky
instrumental	*ežikъmь, *ežikomь*	*ežikoma	*ežiky
locative	*ežicě	*ežiku	*ežicěxъ
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: *ѥжикъ (*ježikŭ), ожикъ (ožikŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: єжикъ (ježik), ожикъ (ožik)
      • Belarusian: во́жык (vóžyk)
      • Ukrainian: ї́жик (jížyk) (dialectal)
    • Russian: ёжик (jóžik)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: е́же̂к (éžêk) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ježík
  • Pannonian Rusyn: їжик (jižik)
  • 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), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 36