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The Fiddle Fancier's Guide: A Manual of Information Regarding Violins …, 1892
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1of these almost prehistoric colonists. They baptised the streams by which they squatted, giving them designations which have come down to our own day. The Taff, the Tawe, the Teiffy, the Tavy—these are all names of rivers at the "end" of the land, and are formed from the Phenician Tauv, Tav, Tau, or Te—the final letter of the ancient Hebrew alphabet and signifying a mark, limit, or boundary. There is at the extreme limit of farther India another river so-called by the same colonising race, namely, the Tavoy, and we have another instance of it in the Tay, which, in Scotland, drains the Southern boundry line of the Grampians. In addition, we have in the North the Yare, the Yore, and the Yarrow—all modifications of "Yeri," a river. We have the Plym, the Tamar, the Thames—and how well they named this last great stream may be realised by anyone who visits Herne Bay or Southend, and observes the steady manner in which the great estuary still performs the duty which earned for it the title it has now borne, for, it may be, three or four thousand years. It is still "melting away" the land—carrying the "London clay" in solution out to sea. In the matter of names in almost their original purity the country, as I have said, teems with these ancient Hebrew words—and the Phenician or Canaanitish dialect is nearly identical with ancient Hebrew.
3What does all this point to? That the Cruth is the progenitor of our present violin? Most certainly that, and nothing less—if etymology is to have its say in the matter. Of the score of spellings in which this musical instrument's name is to be found throughout
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