riviera

‘a narrow coastal region between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea extending from southeast France to northwest Italy’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    E. riuiera < Ital. riviera ‘bank, shore’ < Vulgar Lat. riparia ‘riverbank, seashore’ < ripa ‘(steep) bank of a river, shore’ < ri < Tamil aruvi

English words derived from Tamil aruvi connoting 'river'