Achiko Zangaladze drew attention to the obvious correspondence between "candela/ candle" and Georgian "santeli" in the same sense. In the book "Between Two Iberians" more there is a clearer parallel in the form of "ყანდელი" [kandeli] in the meaning of "candle for the dead". According to Chanturia's dictionary, it is a Hebrew borrowing. The version Achiko is interesting and deep. It just needs to explain the transformation of "sa-" into "ka-". This is easy to do, keeping in mind the dual role of the Latin letter "c". Thanks to it, we have such pairs as, for example, "Kaiser" and "Cesar" that appear to derive from a same word.
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