Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating placement within a location in some languages, as in Finnish Helsinkissä, “in Helsinki.”
- noun The inessive case.
- noun A word or form in the inessive case.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In grammar, expressing ‘position in’; locative.
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- adjective grammar Of, or relating to the
grammatical case that in somelanguages indicates the state of being in or inside alocation . - noun grammar The
inessive case , or a word in that case.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pallottino and other notable experts clumsily tweak the translation for those special 'inessive' instances of zilcθi I just mentioned, claiming it means 'reign' instead, as in "in the reign".
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Pallottino and other notable experts clumsily tweak the translation for those special 'inessive' instances of zilcθi I just mentioned, claiming it means 'reign' instead, as in "in the reign".
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday.
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Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday.
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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The normal form of the locative with inessive postclitic is exemplified by spure-θi 'in the city' in TLE 171 nb. spure alone means 'at/before the city'.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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While Miguel Valério interprets such endings as ablatives meaning 'from', I recognize the Etruscan inessive postclitic -θi 'in'.
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Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in...
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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The normal form of the locative with inessive postclitic is exemplified by spure-θi 'in the city' in TLE 171 nb. spure alone means 'at/before the city'.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
qms commented on the word inessive
In Finland there's somewhere a hoard
Of words they've saved up and stored.
They have the inessive
So they can use less of
Prepositions they decline to afford.
N.B.,the case(s) for economy: In addition to inessive (replacing "in"), this limerick will also work with abessive ("without"), adessive ("by," "while"), and essive ("as"). They are a frugal bunch, those Finns.
May 12, 2015