Tivy

Tivy

See also: tivy

English

Etymology

Anglicisation of Welsh Teifi.

Proper noun

Tivy

1. A river that forms the boundary between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire; the Teifi.
   • 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, 1748, The Works of Michael Drayton, page 264,

     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.

   • 1808, Henry Skrine, Two Successive Tours throughout the Whole of Wales, John Pinkerton (editor), A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World, Volume 2, page 604,

     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.

2. A surname.

Anagrams

• Vity