Noun: ezis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | ezis |
| Accusative | ezi |
| Genitive | eža |
| Dative | ezim |
| Instrumental | ezi |
| Locative | ezī |
| Vocative | ezi |
Plural
| Nominative | eži |
| Accusative | ežus |
| Genitive | ežu |
| Dative | ežiem |
| Instrumental | ežiem |
| Locative | ežos |
| Vocative | eži |
Sample Sentences
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eža adatas (hedgehog needles)
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ass kā ezis (sharp as a hedgehog)
Nouns inflected like ezis
pīlādzis,
skrūvgriezis,
gliemezis,
drudzis,
degunradzis,
klaudzis,
dūzis,
iezis,
nazis,
vēzis,
stirnāzis,
lapgrauzis,
stirnu āzis,
gastūzis,
siena drudzis,
ledlauzis,
stirnuāzis,
milzis,
mežāzis,
riekstrozis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Baltic *ežis, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *eźjás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰis (“hedgehog”), perhaps from eǵʰi-no-s “one that deals with snakes” > “snake-eater”.
2. Cognates include Lithuanian ežỹs, regional ẽżis, Proto-Slavic *ežь (Russian ёж (jož), Ukrainian dialectal ож (ož), Bulgarian еж (ež), Czech regional jež, Polish jeż), Old High German igil (< *eǵʰil-), Middle Low German egel, German Igel), Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos), Old Armenian ոզնի (ozni). See: Russian Nouns '
ёж', Bulgarian Nouns '
еж', Polish Nouns '
jeż', German Nouns '
Igel', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἐχῖνος'.
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