tivy
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- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
Definition of tivy
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
name
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A river that forms the boundary between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire; the Teifi.
“With Cardigan the Muſe proceeds, And tells what rare things Tivy breeds: Next, proud Plynillimon ſhe plys; Where Severn, Wy and Rydoll riſe.”
“1688, Edmund Bohun, Caermarthenſhire, entry in A Geographical Dictionary, unnumbered page, It takes its name from the principal City, which ſtands upon the River Tivy, about five Miles from the Sea.”
“From thence we first gained a view of the vale through which the Tivy runs, intersecting a broad plain with its manifold windings, and crossed in the centre by a narrow bridge of one arch, just below the town of Llanbeder.”
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name
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A river that forms the boundary between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire; the Teifi.
“With Cardigan the Muſe proceeds, And tells what rare things Tivy breeds: Next, proud Plynillimon ſhe plys; Where Severn, Wy and Rydoll riſe.”
“1688, Edmund Bohun, Caermarthenſhire, entry in A Geographical Dictionary, unnumbered page, It takes its name from the principal City, which ſtands upon the River Tivy, about five Miles from the Sea.”
“From thence we first gained a view of the vale through which the Tivy runs, intersecting a broad plain with its manifold windings, and crossed in the centre by a narrow bridge of one arch, just below the town of Llanbeder.”
- A surname.
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Etymology
Anglicisation of Welsh Teifi.
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