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      Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ežika
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).
** 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
    
Descendants
    
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *ожика (*ožika)
- Belarusian: ажы́ка (ažýka)
 - Russian: ожи́ка (ožíka)
 
 
 - Old East Slavic: *ожика (*ožika)
 - South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: јежика
 - Latin script: ježika
 
 
 - Serbo-Croatian:
 
Further reading
    
- 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
 
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