FromLatinsuperesse(“to be over and above”).
superessive (notcomparable)
- Of or relating to thesuperessive case.
superessive (pluralsuperessives)
- Thesuperessive case, a grammatical declension used, chiefly in Hungarian, to indicate location on top of something or on the surface of something.
1988, Daniel Mario Abondolo,Hungarian Inflectional Morphology,page264:"TIZA 'ten' and HUSA 'twenty' have irregularsuperessives in forms such as "TIZA:N + "OT tizenot [tizenot] 'fifteen', HUSA:N + HAT huszonhat [husonhot] 'twenty-six';[…].
1999, E. K. Brown, Jim Miller,Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories,page64:[…]the same three dimensions accommodate distinctions not merely between 'interior' and 'exterior' cases but also between them (and 'posterior' cases) andsuperessives ('superior' cases).
2007, Gergely Tóth,Linguistic Interference and First-language Attrition: German and Hungarian in the San Francisco Bay Area,page140:The following two examples illustrate incorrect delative inflection. This happens either on a personal pronoun in the first sentence (róla 'about/off-of him/ from him' instead ofsuperessiverajta 'about') or in conjunction with nouns.
2008, Frantisek Lichtenberk,A Grammar of Toqabaqita,page481:The prepositionfaafi has a fairly wide range of uses. Most of these fall into three broad categories. The broadest of these is a locative one, wherefaafi is used with asuperessive significance, with or without contact: 'on (top of)', 'on the surface of', 'over', 'above'. In thesuperessive contact meaningfaafi usually implies the presence of weight, pressure, force exerted by the upper on the lower one, or some other kind of effect.
- 2012, László Kálmán, Péter Rebrus, Miklós Törkenczy,Possible and impossible variation in Hungarian, Ferenc Kiefer, Mária Ladányi, Péter Siptár (editors),Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency,page 28,
- These examples show that, while the 1PL possessive endings and thesuperessive (SUE) determine the quality of the linking vowel (high in 1PL, mid in thesuperessive), […] .
