The term "locative" has been employed with notable versatility in literature, serving as a grammatical tool to denote place or location. In Cherokee myth narratives recorded by James Mooney, for instance, locative suffixes such as –yĭ and –hĭ are appended to descriptive roots to form geographic names that encapsulate both natural features and cultural significance—examples include Gû′năhitûñ′yĭ (“Long place”) [1], Gatûñ′lti′yĭ (“Hemp place”) [2], and Tuti′yĭ (“Snowbird place”) [3]. These forms not only mark physical locales but also impart a mythic and poetic quality to the landscape, linking the environment directly to communal identity. In contrast, locative constructions appear in the political and legal context of Thomas Jefferson’s writing, where they function in a more formal grammatical role to indicate spatial relationships, as seen in several references [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]. Thus, whether in mythic storytelling or foundational documents, the locative form operates as a bridge between language and place, reflecting both the natural world and human perception of it.