Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežika

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”) +‎ *-ika.

Noun

*ežika f

Declension

Declension of *ežika (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ežika	*ežicě	*ežiky
genitive	*ežiky	*ežiku	*ežikъ
dative	*ežicě	*ežikama	*ežikamъ
accusative	*ežikǫ	*ežicě	*ežiky
instrumental	ežikojǫ, ežikǫ^**	*ežikama	*ežikami
locative	*ežicě	*ežiku	ežikasъ, ežikaxъ^*
vocative	*ežiko	*ežicě	*ežiky

^* -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
*ežica
*ežina
*ežiti (sę)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *ожика (*ožika)
  - Belarusian: ажы́ка (ažýka)
  - Russian: ожи́ка (ožíka)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: јежика
  
  Latin script: ježika