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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

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *ежина (*ežina), *ожина (*ožina)
  • 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
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