єжикъ

Old Ruthenian

єжикъ (sense 1)

Alternative forms

• ожикъ (ožik)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic *ежикъ (*ežikŭ), ожикъ (ožikŭ), from Proto-Slavic *ežikъ. Cognate with Russian ёжик (jóžik), Polish jeżyk. By surface analysis, єжъ (jež) +‎ -икъ (-ik).

Noun

єжикъ • (ježik) m animal

2. hedgehog

Descendants

• Belarusian: во́жык (vóžyk)
• Ukrainian: ї́жик (jížyk) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1989), “ежикъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 9 (дорогоценный – жеребей), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, →ISBN, page 181