tiver

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *tever, teapor, teafur, from Old English tēafor (“red, red lead, vermilion, purple; a material used in making salve; pigment, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *taubr, from Proto-Germanic *taubrą (“magic, sorcery”). Cognate with Dutch toverij (“sorcery, witchcraft”), German Zauber (“magic”), Icelandic töfrar (“magic, spells”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tiver

  1. A kind of ochre used for marking sheep in some parts of England.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *teveren, from Old English tēofrian, *tīefran (“to mark in red or purple, colour; depict, portray”), from tēafor as above.

Verb

tiver (third-person singular simple present tivers, present participle tivering, simple past and past participle tivered)

  1. (transitive, regional England) To mark with tiver, as sheep.

References

  • “tiver”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

tiver

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of ter

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

Verb

tiver

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of ter
  2. (nonstandard) Alternative form of estiver
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