Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁eǵʰis

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 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

Root unknown.

If related to *h₁ógʷʰis (“snake”), it may have originated as literally “one that deals with snakes” > “snake-eater”. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) However, this would seem to require reinterpreting *h₁egʷʰ- as *h₁egʰ-w-, in which case Indo-Aryan would lack the suffix *-w-. While this may appear helpful for explaining some strange words like Proto-Germanic *egalaz (“leech”), it still fails to account for the different *ǵʰ versus *gʰ and so only adds complexity to the issue.

Noun

*h₁eǵʰis m

  1. hedgehog

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • *h₁eǵʰ-iHn-os
    • Proto-Hellenic: *hekʰinos
  • *h₁eǵʰ-iHn-eh₂
  • *h₁eǵʰ-i-lós
    • Proto-Germanic: *igilaz (“hedgehog, sea urchin”) (see there for further descendants)
  • *h₁oǵʰ-iHn-yo-
  • Unsorted formations:

Descendants

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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 (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, page 149: “m. jo 'hedgehog'”
  6. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*ežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 37
  7. ^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “їж”, in Етимологічний словник української мови (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 323
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