ქართველი

Georgian

Etymology

From Old Georgian ქართველი (kartveli); see below. Cognate with Mingrelian ქორთუ (kortu) and Laz ქორთუ (kortu). Svan ქა̈რთ (kärt) is probably from the same source.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰartʰveli/, [kʰaɾtʰʷeli]
  • Hyphenation: ქარ‧თვე‧ლი

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.

Inflection

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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 (the eastern part of present Georgia, Known to Classical authors as Iberia).

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

  • Georgian: ქართველი (kartveli)
  • Svan: ქართუ̂ელ (kartûel)

References

  • Klimov, G. 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), 2nd edition, 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
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