Re: Plurality

En réponse à Christopher Wright :


>[1] Will someone please tell me if this is the right word for a "to" case?
No. "essive" has the same root as ESSE, meaning "to be", and in spatial
sense corresponds rather to "at". A "to" case would rather be "lative". I'd
personally call it "allative" (from "ad+lative").

>[2] This isn't the right word, I think. Ablative is "from the direction
>of", and I want "starting at this point".
That's "delative", from Latin DE: away from, although "ablative" would work
too (I've never heard it meaning "from the direction of", only "from, away
from" with a possibility to apply for time, what the delative cannot).


Christophe Grandsire.

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