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serlwch, to linguistics

has many cases. Two of them are:

• The elative case (elatiivi), denoting ‘internal location + from’; e.g. talosta ‘out of a house’.
• The illative case (illatiivi), denoting ‘internal location + to’; e.g. taloon ‘into a house’.

Now, let me understand something (and correct me if I’m wrong)… Even though they mean basically the opposite of each other, their names are pronounced the same in English (/ɪˈleɪtɪv/) 🙃

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serlwch,

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My source was Wiktionary, which lists both illative and elative as /ɪˈleɪtɪv/ in UK pronunciation. Perhaps there’s dialectal variation within the UK with this regard. The Wiktionarian who added the pronunciation information for both is I'm so meta even this acronym, who is a native speaker of Welsh and English (see here and here).

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