essiven.
/ˈɛsɪv/, U.S. /ˈɛsɪv/ The designation of one of the fifteen cases of Finnish, a declension expressing a continuous state of being, existence in a specified state or capacity.
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ablativec1400
instrumental1801
prepositional1824
allative1854
adessive1855
sociative1859
comitative1860
terminative1865
abessive1869
common case1869
translative1869
instructive1879
essive1890
transitional case1890
superessive1895
prepositional case1897
similative1903
lative1939
perlative1953
elative1959
1890 C. N. E. Eliot Finnish Gram. 131 The first member (inessive, adessive, essive) denotes originally rest in a position.
1905 Jespersen in Englische Studien 35 9 Essive, indicating the state in which anybody or anything is.
1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. xiii. 183 In Finnish the predicative is..in the essive to denote the state in which the subject is at a given time.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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