Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežica
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom *ežь (“hedgehog”) + *-ica.
Noun
edit*ežica f
- female hedgehog
Declension
editDeclension 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).
** 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
editDescendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
edit- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežica / *ežika”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 35