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abessive

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ab·es·sive  (bsv)
adj.
Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating absence, as Finnish puhumatta "without speaking."
n.
1. The abessive case.
2. A word in the abessive case.
[From Latin abesse, to be absent, away; see absent.]
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The eleven 'semantic' case forms of an Estonian nominal (illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, translative, terminative, essive, abessive and comitative) are all based on the corresponding genitives, as illustrated in table 3.
Declension classes in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Blevins, James P. / Linguistica Uralica
Renvall): Essive * Essive * Essive Essive Factive Factive Factive Translative Illative Illative Illative Illative Inessive Inessive Inessive Inessive Elative Elative Elative Elative Allative Allative Allative Allative Adessive Adessive Adessive Adessive Ablative Ablative Ablative Ablative Caritive Caritive * Abessive Abessive * Instrumental * Comitative Comitative * Terminative
Estonian grammars by Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann/[TEXT NOT ... by Pajusalu, Karl / Linguistica Uralica
above), which is clear from their morphological analysis (-(o)n + -tem, abessive suffix of adjectives).
Eberhard Winkler, Udmurt, Munchen 2001 (Languages of the World) by Napol'skich, Vladimir / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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