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      Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/eževika
Proto-Slavic
    
    Etymology
    
From *eževъ (“hedgehog-related”) + *-ika.
Noun
    
*eževika f
Declension
    
Declension of *eževika (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *eževika | *eževicě | *eževiky | 
| Accusative | *eževikǫ | *eževicě | *eževiky | 
| Genitive | *eževiky | *eževiku | *eževikъ | 
| Locative | *eževicě | *eževiku | *eževikasъ, *eževikaxъ* | 
| Dative | *eževicě | *eževikama | *eževikamъ | 
| Instrumental | *eževikojǫ, *eževikǫ** | *eževikama | *eževikami | 
| Vocative | *eževiko | *eževicě | *eževiky | 
* -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: *ежевика (*eževika)
- Russian: ежеви́ка (ježevíka)
 
 
- Old East Slavic: *ежевика (*eževika)
Further reading
    
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*eževica / *eževika”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 35
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