Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežь
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
*ežь m[1]
Declension edit
Declension of *ežь (soft o-stem)
Derived terms edit
- *ežakъ, *ežikъ (diminutive)
- *eževъ(jь)
- *ežica, *ežika
- *ežina
- *ežiti (sę)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 37
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ёж”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “їж”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 323
References edit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ežь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 149: “m. jo ‘hedgehog’”