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Example sentences for "local names"

  • Local names come in as Totemism goes out.

  • The evidence alluded to is that of local names ending in the remarkable suffix ing or ingas.

  • The patronymic suffix ing or ingas to local names.

  • In local names we seem to meet the Upper-Unami and the Minsi of New Jersey, and the Mohegan and the Natick of the north and east, the Quiripi of the Sound, and the dialect of the Connecticut Valley.

  • This word rarely, if ever, enters into the composition of local names, and, so far as I know, it does not make a part of the name of any river in New England.

  • The answer to this will show the vast predominance of local names in our Directories.

  • The next division of local names is specific—viz.

  • If there be no totem kins in the phratry, are Mr. Swanton's clans of local names locally exogamous?

  • But, if the Tlingit clans have not totemic names, then it would appear that, among a people of dwellers in towns, local names of local groups have succeeded to totemic names of totemic kins.

  • How it happened that the very name of Britain was abolished, and why the Anglian was selected in preference to the more eminent race, may offer a philosophical illustration of the accidental nature of LOCAL NAMES.

  • We have recently been cautioned by a sojourner in the most ancient of kingdoms,[5] not too confidently to rely on etymology, or to assign too positively any reason for the origin of LOCAL NAMES.

  • Local names to be compared with Cofitachiqui are: Cofachi, further south, and Acapachiqui, a tract of land near Apalache.

  • Intercourse between the Creek and the Cheroki Indians must have taken place in prehistoric times, as evidenced by local names, and more so by Cheroki terms adopted into the Creek language.

  • The report is almost entirely devoid of local names, which alone could give indications upon the route traveled over.

  • We have seen that a portion of Fontanedo's local names of the Calusa country are of Creek origin, and that another portion is probably Timucua.

  • Local Names in the Celtic Countries of Gaul, &c.

  • The proposition that the most important local names in every country for the most part consist of terms belonging to the language of the very first inhabitants, is one of which I conceive the truth will be evident.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absence from; can never; criminal procedure; does seem; local administration; local affairs; local application; local authorities; local authority; local banks; local circles; local circumstances; local color; local colour; local conditions; local government; local history; local inflammation; local option; local preacher; local short; local tradition; looking creature; moderately warm; moral certainty; mother dear