This whole thing's been such a giant rat fuck right from the start that I don't know what I think anymore.

[…]his two Chamberlaines / Will I with Wine, and Waſſell, ſo conuince, / That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, / Shall be a Fume,[…]

For criticism of the decision see R. Bacchus, The Development of the Law of Wrongful Dismissal in the Commonwealth Caribbean [1991] 1 Carib. L.R. 13.

I reckon that Lichtenstein had found a Latin genitive abdimi ('of Abdim') but thought it was in the nominative case, not yet declensed in the genitive, and that the person's name was Abdimi, so he applied yet again a Latin genitival suffix.