Tiv

[ tiv ]

noun

, plural Tivs, (especially collectively) Tiv.

1. a member of an African people living N and S of the lower Benue River in E Nigeria.
2. the Benue-Congo language of the Tiv.

Tiv

/ tɪv /

noun

1. TivsTiv a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in the savanna of the Benue area of S Nigeria and noted by anthropologists for having no chiefs
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family

Example Sentences

Punitive (pū′ni-tiv), pertaining to punishment: inflicting punishment; Pū′nitory, punishing: tending to punishment.

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Restive, res′tiv, adj. unwilling to go forward: obstinate: jibbing back like a restive horse.

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Totitive, tot′i-tiv, n. a number less than another having with it no common divisor but unity.

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Transumptive, tran-sump′tiv, adj. transferred from one to another.

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Undistinctive, un-dis-tingk′tiv, adj. making no distinctions.

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