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
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 Robert Ferguson
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 Robert Ferguson
To the root ud place as an appellative the Obs.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
In the name of another lake in Russia, the Karduanskoi-ilmen, it seems to occur as an appellative.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
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