Latvian

Noun

eža m

1. genitive singular form of ezis

Etymology 2

From Proto-Baltic *ež-i̯ā-, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵʰ- ‎(“edge, border”). Cognates include Lithuanian ežià, dialectal ežė̃, ezìs (compare 17th-century Latvian ezis), Proto-Slavic *ězъ (Russian regional еж ‎(jež, “weir, woven river dam for catching fish”), Belarusian яз ‎(jaz, “weir, woven river dam for catching fish”), Bulgarian яз ‎(jaz, “dam, weir”), Czech jez ‎(“dam, weir”), Polish jaz ‎(“mill dam, weir”)), Old Armenian եզր ‎(ezr, “coast, edge, border”).^[1]

Noun

eža f (4th declension)

1. balk; unlabored, grass-covered narrow strip of land (between fields, at the side of a road, implicitly marking a boundary)

   uz ežas bija samesti no lauka novāktie akmeņi‎ ― stones collected from the field were thrown on the balk

   pa ežu starp miežu un zirņu laukiem kāds jau aizgājis‎ ― someone has already gone by the balk between the barley and pea fields

Declension

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “eža”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7