locative

How to use locative in a sentence

• Even Montenegro was to some degree influenced by this process, having lost one or two cases, such as the locative.

  The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 | Henry Baerlein

• Wude′ligûñ′yĭ—the west; literally “there where it (the sun) goes down” (w prefixed implies distance, yĭ, locative).

  Myths of the Cherokee | James Mooney

• Kin or Cin, older cind, is really a survival of the old dative or locative of Gael.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various

• In Latin the locative has been confused with the genitive and the ablative, and the instrumental with the ablative.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 4 | Various

• In one of his later papers, he argues that the origin of such subjective nominals is often, perhaps generally, locative.

  The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt | Daniel G. Brinton