Continuing with the topic of borrowing Kartvelian roots into the ancient Greek language, let us pay attention to the word "άπατη" [apati], meaning "deception". Again, we see the negative prefix "a-" in combination with the root "pat", which does not have the opposite meaning of "deception" in Greek, but does have it in the Georgian language, where "pativi" (პატივი) means "honor", "respect" ("-iv" is a suffix here). And again, we find in the Georgian dictionary a word with the root "pat" and the negative prefix "u-", which could have been transformed by the Greeks into "a-" when borrowed: "upativoeba" (უპატივოება), meaning "dishonor", which is extremely close to "deception".
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