Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežica

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”) +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*ežica f

1. female hedgehog

Declension

Declension of *ežica (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ežica	*ežici	*ežicę̇
genitive	*ežicę̇	*ežicu	*ežicь
dative	*ežici	*ežicama	*ežicamъ
accusative	*ežicǫ	*ežici	*ežicę̇
instrumental	*ežicejǫ, *ežicǫ**	*ežicama	*ežicami
locative	*ežici	*ežicu	*ežicasъ, *ežicaxъ*
vocative	*ežice	*ežici	*ežicę̇

^* -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).

Related terms

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *ежица (*ežica)
    • Ukrainian: ї́жи́ця (jížýcja) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: јѐжица

    Latin script: jèžica

  • Slovene: ježíca
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ježice (archaic)
  • Polish: jeżyca

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežica / *ežika”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 35