Editing Terminative case (section)

==Finnish==
The use of the [[postposition]] ''[[wikt:asti#Finnish|asti]]'' (or synonymously ''[[wikt:saakka#Finnish|saakka]]'')  with the [[illative case|illative]] (or [[allative case|allative]] or [[sublative case|sublative]]) case in Finnish very closely corresponds to the terminative.  These same postpositions with the [[elative case|elative]] (or [[ablative case|ablative]]) case also express the opposite of a terminative:  a limit in time or space of origination or initiation.

The old Finnish terminative ''-ni'' is no longer productive, but it appears in the [[Kalevala]]: nominative ''se'' "it, that" ~ terminative ''sini'' "up to where" = modern ''siihen asti'', and nominative ''kuka'' "who, what (poetic)" ~ terminative ''kuni'' "up to where" = modern ''kuhun asti''.<ref>Lönnrot, Elias. Kalevala. 31. runo, säkeet 279-282</ref> Also, the established phrase ''kaikki tyynni'' "every, until completion" contains the terminative ''tyynni'', being derived from an older form ''kaikki tyvennik'' "every, up to its base", where ''tyvi'' is "foot, base".