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ქართველი

ქართველი

Georgian

Adjective

ქართველი(kartveli) (not comparable)

  1. (Of person) Of Georgian descent
    ქართველი ჯარისკაცი
    kartveli ǯarisḳaci
    A Georgian soldier

Noun

ქართველი (kartveli) (plural ქართველები)

  1. person from the country of Georgia in the Caucasus; Georgian.

Related terms

Inflection


Old Georgian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Kartvelian *kart-, which also produced a placename ქართლი (kartli, Kartli), thus, originally, the term referred to an inhabitant of the Georgian core central region of Kartli.

Klimov considers Svan ქა̈რთ (kärt, Tbilisi) to be borrowed from Georgian. He reconstructs the root as Proto-Georgian-Zan *kart(w)- and derives ქართველი (kartveli) from inflected *kartw-el-. He also points out that this Proto-Georgian-Zan term, alongside *m-egr-el- (whence Georgian მეგრელი (megreli) and Mingrelian მარგალი (margali)), indicates the presence of an important ethnic division as early as the Proto-Georgian-Zan period.

Noun

ქართველი (kartveli)

  1. (person) Georgian

Descendants

References

  • Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 213
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 458
  • penrixi (Fähnrich), hainc; sarǯvelaʒe, zurab (2000) kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, page 486
  • abulaʒe, ilia (1973), ქართველი”, in ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 451