"Locative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... of the skin varies at different places from the tongue downwards. Palpation by the fingers marks a further stage. The blind also, we are told, largely employ the feet in walking as a source of locative data. ...
— Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge • Alexander Philip
... suppose from tozquitl, the singing voice, in the locative; literally, "the quechol in the ...
— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton
... 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
... la tierra adentro hasta Tlapallan 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 sand, ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton |
