ablational
Ablational is an adjective used primarily in linguistics to describe phenomena related to the ablative case or to constructions that express the functions typically associated with the ablative. In languages with an explicit ablative, ablational features may include suffixes, clitics, or other forms that mark origin, source, separation, or movement away from a reference point, as well as certain instrumental or relational meanings in some grammars.
In descriptive grammars, the term "ablational" is used to refer to grammatical forms or functions aligned with
Outside linguistics, "ablational" can occasionally describe processes that cause ablation, such as material loss in geology,
Ablation and ablative are related but distinct terms; ablational describes a relationship to the ablative function,