"Locative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for z (zeta ds). They possessed the spirant F which they expressed by [Symbol] and used the symbol [Symbol] to denote V or W. They preserved the old genitive in as or ar (Lat. ai, ae) and the locative, both which were rarely found in Latin; also the Indo-European future in so (didest, herest) and the infin. in um ...
— A History of Roman Literature - From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius • Charles Thomas Cruttwell
... is translated like foras above, but the former was originally locative and is therefore used with verbs of rest; the latter, accusative of place whither and therefore used with ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... old Homeric infinitive in menai, and you find its explanation in the Sanskrit termination mane, i.e. manai, the native of the suffix man (not, as others suppose, the locative of a suffix mana), by which a large number of nouns are formed in Sanskrit. From gn, to know, we have (g)nman, Latin (g)nomn, that by which a thing is known, its name; from gan, to be born, gn-man, birth. In Greek this suffix man is chiefly used for forming masculine nouns, ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... o segun otros Huey Xalac, antigua patria de sus antepasados, en donde vivio muchos anos." Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones Historicas, p. 394, in Kingsborough, vol. ix. Xalac, is from xalli, sand, with the locative termination. In Nahuatl xalli aquia, to enter the ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton |
