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

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