Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A family of languages spoken in the Caucasus mountains that includes Georgian.
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- noun a member of a group of related peoples in the
South Caucasus , namelyGeorgians ,Svans ,Mingrelians andLazs - noun a
Georgian person, from the endonymქართველი (k'art'veli) - proper noun a family of languages spoken by the Kartvelian people
- adjective pertaining to the Kartvelian peoples or languages such as
Georgian . - adjective same as
Georgian (language or ethnicity)
Etymologies
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Rather than believe in a sincere connection between these geographically well-separated languages which a good historican can tell immediately would be an utter fantasy, my instincts are telling me rather that some person or persons of the academically isolated Trombetti camp1, desperate to translate Etruscan by any unmethodological means, decided randomly that this Georgian word from the Kartvelian aka.
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Rather than believe in a sincere connection between these geographically well-separated languages which a good historican can tell immediately would be an utter fantasy, my instincts are telling me rather that some person or persons of the academically isolated Trombetti camp1, desperate to translate Etruscan by any unmethodological means, decided randomly that this Georgian word from the Kartvelian aka.
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(or "Kartvelian") language unrelated to any other outside the immediate region, is one of the oldest living languages in the world, and has its own distinctive alphabet.
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(or "Kartvelian") language unrelated to any other outside the immediate region, is one of the oldest living languages in the world, and has its own distinctive alphabet.
unknown title 2009
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"Kartvelian") language unrelated to any other outside the immediate region, is one of the oldest living languages in the world, and has its own distinctive alphabet.
unknown title 2009
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"Kartvelian") language unrelated to any other outside the immediate region, is one of the oldest living languages in the world, and has its own distinctive alphabet.
unknown title 2009
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While Gamkrelidze and Ivanov have suggested that the Georgian word is borrowed from PIE **weinag-2, I must in all good conscience cite this with double asterisks rather than one because their shoddy evidence not only denies the plausibility of this alleged stem at the Proto-Indo-European stage, but it also makes it unlikely that *wenaq- is anything older than dialectal Kartvelian, restricted instead to the Georgian-Zan subset.
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While Gamkrelidze and Ivanov have suggested that the Georgian word is borrowed from PIE **weinag-2, I must in all good conscience cite this with double asterisks rather than one because their shoddy evidence not only denies the plausibility of this alleged stem at the Proto-Indo-European stage, but it also makes it unlikely that *wenaq- is anything older than dialectal Kartvelian, restricted instead to the Georgian-Zan subset.
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The mess with early gemination that I've been previously speaking about has oddly enough led me down a new quest: Proto-Kartvelian PK loans.
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All in all, if I remember correctly without looking this up, the first dispersion of Kartvelian languages is dated to about 3600 BC, so it is likely a couple millenia younger than PIE.
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