inessive

English

Etymology

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Proto-Italic *n̥--

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English essive

English inessive

From in- (“in”) + essive.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv

Adjective

inessive (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Of or relating to the inessive case, a grammatical case that in some languages indicates the state of being in or inside a location.

   Coordinate terms: abessive, adessive

   • 2015, Aet Lees, Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Livonian and Veps, BRILL, →ISBN, page 272:

     Their objects are partitive except in Finnish, where there is one accusative object of an inessive infinitive and two of adessive infinitives.

Translations

of or relating to the inessive case

• Basque: inesibo
• Catalan: inessiu (ca)
• Estonian: seesütlev (et), inessiivne
• Finnish: inessiivi- (fi), inessiivinen
• French: inessif (fr) m
• Irish: ineiseach
• Polish: w inessivusie
• Russian: инесси́вный (inessívnyj)
• Spanish: inesivo (es)
• Welsh: mewnfodol

Noun

inessive (plural inessives)

1. (grammar) The inessive case, or a word in that case.

   Coordinate terms: abessive, adessive

Translations

inessive case

• Bulgarian: инеси́в m (inesív)
• Catalan: inessiu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內格 / 内格 (zh) (nèigé)

• Dutch: inessief (nl) m
• Estonian: seesütlev (et), seesütlev kääne (et), inessiiv (et)
• Finnish: inessiivi (fi), sisäolento (fi)
• French: inessif (fr) m
• German: Inessiv m
• Hungarian: inessivus (hu)
• Icelandic: íverufall (is) n
• Irish: tuiseal ineiseach m
• Italian: caso inessivo m
• Japanese: 内格 (ja) (ないかく, naikaku)
• Polish: inessivus (pl) m
• Portuguese: caso inessivo m
• Russian: инесси́в (ru) m (inessív), инесси́вный паде́ж m (inessívnyj padéž)
• Spanish: caso inesivo m
• Swedish: inessiv (sv) c
• Welsh: mewnfodol m