adessive

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

Etymology From ad- (“at”) + essive.

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates adjacent location.

Their objects are partitive except in Finnish, where there is one accusative object of an inessive infinitive and two of adessive infinitives.2015, Aet Lees, Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Livonian and Veps, BRILL, →ISBN, page 272:

noun

Etymology From ad- (“at”) + essive.

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The adessive case, or a word in that case.

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