The Teteriv River flows through the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, the name of which may contain the Georgian root "tetri", translated as "white". Not far from the village of Koziivka, the nature has lined the bottom of the Teteriv with white marble, which explains why someone could associate the river with the color white.
The version is supported by the Svan word "tetrill", which also translates as "white". If you pronounce it in the Polish manner, when the sound [l] approaches [v] (as, for example, in the pair "tolsty-tovsty"), then [tetrill] turns into [tetriv], which practically coincides with today's pronunciation of the river's name. In this case the forgotten "Tetriv" may have been falsely re-interpreted as "Teteriv". So, the Teteriv River may not have anything to do with the black grouse bird.
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