Re: Basque bizarreries (was: Conland Digest etc.)

michael poxon wrote:
>
>This case exists also in Finnish (and old Omeina!), where it is called
the
>"translative case", meaning more or less 'in the capacity of', 'acting
as'
>and so on.
Actually, at least in Finnish and Estonian, it's called *essive*. Translative
is the same but dynamic, i.e. "becoming X."
(But of course you are right in that Finnish and probably Estonian would
use *translative* in "we want him for our father," since the person in question
is not yet the speakers' father.)

>Mike
>
>>
>> *aitatzat nahi dugu* = nous le voulons pour pere (we
>> want him as a father)
>>
-M. Astrand

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