appellative

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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

To the root vip place as an appellative the Welsh gwibio, to rove, wander, gwibiau, serpentine course.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert

In referring to the root ark, erk, I have omitted the Ir. earc, water, the appellative most nearly concerned.

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

Hence appellative words bearing any affinity with the names of the deceased are presently abolished.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)