vocatively
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]vocatively (comparative more vocatively, superlative most vocatively)
- In a vocative way.
- 2004, Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza, page 722:
- Kinship terminology is reportedly not used vocatively in family II, whereas it is in family I (note that Kwaza has no vocative morpheme). It is by MA considered ugly to use the words for 'husband' and 'wife' vocatively.