The egressive
case (
abbreviated
An abbreviation (from Latin ''brevis'', meaning ''short'') is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word ''abbrevia ...
) marks the beginning of a movement from an approximate location or a moment in time.
This case is used in
Udmurt and
Veps language
Veps, also known as Vepsian (Veps: ' or '), is a Finnic language from the Uralic language family, that is spoken by Vepsians. The language is written in the Latin script, and is closely related to Finnish and Karelian.
According to Soviet s ...
s
[http://proceedings.usu.ru/?base=mag/0065(01_$03-2009)&xsln=showArticle.xslt&id=a10&doc=../content.jsp ] (both belong to
Uralic languages
The Uralic languages (; sometimes called Uralian languages ) form a language family of 38 languages spoken by approximately 25million people, predominantly in Northern Eurasia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (w ...
).
Example
Udmurt
References
Grammatical cases
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