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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁eǵʰis

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Etymology

Initially literally “one that deals with snakes” > “snake-eater”. Related to *h₂éngʷʰis and *h₁ógʷʰis.

Noun

*h₁eǵʰis m

  1. hedgehog

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • *h₁eǵʰ-iHnos[1]
    • Proto-Hellenic: *hekʰinos
      • Ancient Greek: ἐχῖνος (ekhînos) (see there for further descendants)
      • Mycenaean Greek: 𐀁𐀑𐀜 (e-ki-no)
  • *h₁eǵʰ-i-lós
    • Proto-Germanic: *igilaz (“hedgehog, sea urchin”)[1] (see there for further descendants)
  • *h₁oǵʰ-iHn-io-[1]
    • Old Armenian: ոզնի (ozni), կոզնի (kozni)
      • Armenian: ոզնի (ozni), կոզնի (kozni)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Haȷ́ʰiHnas
      • Proto-Iranian: *HaziHnah
        • Proto-Scythian: *azini
          • Proto-Ossetic: *azinɨ
            • Old Ossetic: *æzin[2]
              • Ossetian:
                Digor Ossetian: узун (uzun)
                Iron Ossetian: уызы́н (wyzýn)
                • → Chechen: зу (zu), зуьнаш (zünaš, “hedgehog”)
                • → Ingush: зӏий (zˀii, “hedgehog”)
  • Unsorted formations:
    • ⇒ Proto-Albanian: *etska (< *edz-k-a)

Descendants
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *eźis[4][1]
    • Proto-Baltic: *ežis
    • Proto-Slavic: *ežь[5][6][7] (see there for further descendants)
  • Phrygian: ἔζις (ézis, “hedgehog”)

Further reading

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*egila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 115: “m. 'hedgehog, sea urchin'”
  2. Abajev, V. I. (1989), “wyzyn | uzun”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 129
  3. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “esh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 90
  4. Derksen, Rick (2015), “ežys”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 159: “'hedgehog'”
  5. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ežь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 149: “m. jo 'hedgehog'”
  6. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 37
  7. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “їж”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 323
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