appellative
Example Sentences
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Now a taxidermied water buffalo head — the ox — watches from above the bar, while the appellative bull is represented across from it in gleaming metal.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023
From the verb comes the appellative ffrwd, a torrent, corresponding with the Bohem. praud, of the same meaning.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
In the above Sansc. var, to moisten, to water, is contained, as I take it, the root of the Finnic wirta, a river, the only appellative I can find for the following.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
GEORGE'S, the name being suggested, in the first place, by the baptismal appellative of their virtual founder and Hon. Sec.,
From The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Edge, Frederick Milnes
And it is certain that all proper or individual names have been originally appellative or general.”
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max