Evitative: From Latin ēvītāre (“to avoid”), from ē- (“out”) + vītāre (“to shun”).
Adjective: (grammar) grammatically expressing the notion that something is avoided or feared: a grammatical mood found in some Australian Aboriginal languages.
Synonym: aversive
The aversive or evitative case (abbreviated evit) is a grammatical case found in Australian Aboriginal languages that indicates that the marked noun is avoided or feared.
The aversive may also be used to mark the object of verbs of fearing.
The aversive may be used on a nominalized verb, to produce an equivalent of English "lest". For example, "lest they be forgotten" could be encoded as "to avoid forgetting them".
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