"Locative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 |
