The Russian-language authors have repeatedly invented non-existent nations, being unable to adequately transliterate their names from Greek. In addition to "Tevkres" there were also "Tauri", and therefore "Tavria".
First, pronouncing the diphthongs "eu" and "au" so that the second vowel turns into a consonant [f] is a characteristic of the modern Greek language. In ancient Greek, both letters in diphthongs were pronounced as vowels. Second, not every pair of vowels can be interpreted as a diphthong and pronounced accordingly. If the prefix ends in a vowel and the root begins with a vowel, then with the continuous pronunciation of such a pair of vowels, the morphological structure of the word is lost. Third, in the Greek word Ταύροι the stress falls on the second vowel, so it is not even possible to pronounce "au" as a diphthong. Such letter combinations must be pronounced with two separate vowels - [a-u], that is, [tauri], with the stress on "u".
After the word has finally been correctly read from ancient Greek, one can see that it looks like a Kartvelian adjective ending in "-uri", derived from the word "tavi" - "head". In modern Georgian, the word "tauri" is used, for example, to call a header in football. Therefore, we have the right to assume that the so-called "Tauri" (and in fact, "tauri") had specific heads. Surely, in their case, the word "tauri" meant "big-headed". By the way, the Greek word "ταῦρος", meaning "bull", may well have the same meaning of "big-headed animal", which is what bulls are.
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