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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežikъ

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) + *-ikъ (diminutive suffix).

Noun

*ežikъ m

  1. hedgehog

Declension

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *ѥжикъ (*ježikŭ), ожикъ (ožikŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: е́же̂к (éžêk) (dialectal)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: ježík
    • Polish: jeżyk
    • Sorbian:

Further reading

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