The French tribe of Vercingetorix, the Arvernes, is believed to have given the name to the land of Auvergne. But if we look at both toponyms from the Kartvelian point of view, the situation turns 180 degrees. If "Auverni" is "the land of verni", then "Arverni" is "not verni". The root "vern" is most likely the same as in the Spanish toponym "Bernedo".
From the other hand, the name could have initially been also "Oberni" (for this it was only necessary to replace "v" with "b", which is absolutely acceptable, and also to interpret the final palatalization as the Kartvelian ending of the nominative case "-i"). In this form, it is already a pure Megrelian toponym "land of the Berni", where "Berni" is the Old Kartvelian plural of "beri". The meanings of "beri" can be different, this has already been said. What is interesting is not so much them as the fact that the name "beri" has already been encountered in neighboring Spain in "Bernedo" and in "berons". It hardly makes sense to doubt that they are one and the same people. But this is only half the story.
The official etymology calls for the word "Auvergne" to be considered to come from the name of the tribe "Arverni" (whose leader, by the way, was Vercingetorix). But if the real version of the origin of the word "Auvergne" that we have proposed makes sense, then the official etymology is correct exactly the opposite! After all, "Arverni" in Kartvelian means "not Verni" (not Berni"). We have already seen something similar in the case of the Spanish Arawaks, who turned out to be "not Waki", that is, "not Waccaeans".
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