Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežina

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”) +‎ *-ina.

Compare with Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰis (“hedgehog”) + *-iHnos.

Noun

*ežina f

Declension

Declension of *ežina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ežina	*ežině	*ežiny
genitive	*ežiny	*ežinu	*ežinъ
dative	*ežině	*ežinama	*ežinamъ
accusative	*ežinǫ	*ežině	*ežiny
instrumental	*ežinojǫ, *ežinǫ**	*ežinama	*ežinami
locative	*ežině	*ežinu	*ežinasъ, *ežinaxъ*
vocative	*ežino	*ežině	*ežiny

^* -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, *ežika
• *ežiti (sę)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *ежина (*ežina), *ожина (*ožina)
    • Belarusian: ажи́на (ažína)
    • Russian: ожи́на f (ožína), ожи́н m (ožín) (dialectal)
    • Old Ukrainian: ожи́на (ožína)
      • Ukrainian: ожи́на (ožýna), ожи́ни pl (ožíni)
        • → Yiddish: אָזשענע (ozhene)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: јѐжина

    Latin script: jèžina

    ⇒ Cyrillic script: јежиница

    ⇒ Latin script: ježinica

  • Slovene: jéžinja
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: ježiny pl
    • ⇒ Czech: ježiník m
  • Polish: jeżyna, ożyna; jezina, jażyna (dialectal)
  • Slovak: ožina

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 36