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Adverbial genitive — In grammar, an adverbial genitive is a noun declined in the genitive case that functions as an adverb.Adverbial genitives in EnglishIn Old and Middle English, the Genitive case was productive, and adverbial genitives were commonplace. While… … Wikipedia
Genitive case — In grammar, the genitive case or possessive case (also called the second case ) is the case that marks a noun as modifying another noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun but it can also indicate various relationships… … Wikipedia
genitive absolute — noun : a construction in Greek in which a noun or pronoun and its adjunct both in the genitive case form together an adverbial phrase expressing generally the time, cause, or an attendant circumstance of an action (as Konōnos stratēgountos in… … Useful english dictionary
Archaic Dutch declension — was the declensional system of the Dutch language as it was prescribed the Dutch by Dutch grammarians in the 19th century. It was never spoken by Dutch people, but was required as a formality in most forms of writing. It was generally unpopular,… … Wikipedia
-ways — suffix forming adjectives and adverbs of direction or manner (sideways) (cf. WISE). Etymology: WAY + S * * * ˌwāzfl>adverb suffix Etymology: Middle English ways, weys, from ways, weyes, wayes, gen. of way, wey way more at way : in ( … Useful english dictionary
anyway — (adv.) 1560s, any way in any manner; variant any ways (with adverbial genitive) attested from c.1560. One word form predominated from 1830s. As an adverbial conjunction, from 1859. Middle English in this sense had ani gates in any way, somehow (c … Etymology dictionary
-wards — an adverbial suffix indicating direction, as in onwards, seawards, backwards. Also, Chiefly US, ward. {Middle English wardes; Old English weardes, adverbial genitive of weard ward} …
about — (adv.) O.E. abutan, earlier onbutan on the outside of, from on (see ON (Cf. on)) + be by (see BY (Cf. by)) + utan outside, from ut (see OUT (Cf. out) (adv … Etymology dictionary
afterward — (adv.) O.E. æftanweard, from æftan after (see AFT (Cf. aft)) + weard suffix indicating direction (see WARD (Cf. ward)); nautical use as aftward, then expanded by influence of after; variant AFTERWARDS (Cf. afterwards) shows adverbial genitive … Etymology dictionary
afterwards — (adv.) c.1300, from AFTERWARD (Cf. afterward) (q.v.) + adverbial genitive s; originally a Northern form … Etymology dictionary
