Etymology

Sakartvelo

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Today it means: Synonym of Georgia (“a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea. Capital: Tbilisi”). Full definition →

Georgian საქართველო ← oge საქართველო ← ccs-pro *kart-
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The story

  1. ccs-pro · derived from*kart-“eastern Georgia; Georgian people”
  2. oge · derived fromსაქართველო
  3. Georgian · borrowed fromსაქართველო
  4. English todaySakartvelo

Borrowed from Georgian საქართველო (sakartvelo), from Old Georgian საქართველო (sakartvelo), from ქართველი (kartveli, “(adjective) of Georgian descent; (noun) person from Georgia”) + სა- -ო (sa- -o, circumfix forming words relating to the concept or thing which the stem to which it is attached refers). ქართველი (kartveli) is ultimately derived from Proto-Kartvelian *kart- (“eastern Georgia; Georgian people”) (whence ქართლი (kartli, “Kartli, historical region of Georgia in the central and eastern part of the country”)).

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