The antessive case (

abbreviated An abbreviation (from Latin ''brevis'', meaning ''short'') is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word ''abbrevia ...

)S. Agesthialingom, Prakya Sreesaila Subrahmanyam, ''Dravidian Linguistics- V: (proceedings of the Seminar on Dravidian Linguistics- V)'', Page 275, 1976 - 582 pages
Google book search link
quote: "''(6) 'before' (antessive), (7) 'behind, ...''" is used for marking the spatial relation of preceding or being before. The case is found in some

Dravidian languages The Dravidian languages (or sometimes Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan. Since the colonial era, there have been small but significant ...

References

Grammatical cases {{ling-morph-stub