The name caritive is derived from Latin: carere "to lack", and is especially used in reference to Caucasian languages.
The abessive marker for nouns in Skolt Sámi is -tää or -taa in both the singular and the plural: The abessive-like non-finite verb form (converb) is -ǩâni or -kani: Unlike Finnish, the Skolt Sámi abessive has no competing expression for lack of an item.
The abessive is not used productively in the Western Sámi languages, although it may occur as a cranberry morpheme.
For example: There is also the postposition nélkül, which also means without, but is not meant for physical locations.
It is not universally considered to be a case, because the suffix does not conform to vowel harmony or undergo any stem-dependent orthographical variation.