Where does “abessive” come from?
abessive (English) comes from Latin abesse, from Latin absum, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.
abessive (English): Of, or relating to the grammatical case used in...
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- Of, or relating to the grammatical case used in...
Ancestry of “abessive”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | abesse | present active infinitive of absum; to be absent |
| 2 | Latin | absum | I am away, I am absent, I am distant |
| 3 | Latin | ab- | from, away, away from; off; at a distance |
| 4 | Latin | āb | from, away from, out of |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *ab | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | apó | — |
Words derived from “abessive”