კობრი [kobri] - carp
In Latin, "carp" is "cyprinus". In addition, "cyprinus" is also "copper". Traditional etymology traces the last word to an Eteocypriot non-Indo-European root. And then to Sumerian. For some reason, the Kartvelian "kobri" is not taken into account at all. It simply does not occur to anyone to connect "carp" with "copper", which in English and Spanish is "copper" and "cobre".
This can be done two-foldly:
(1) "... like a turbid copper carp and with gray hair, living for up to a hundred years in the pond at the town hall...". (2) "Polish scientists have established that in those reservoirs where there is copper, carp are distinguished by their large size. In ponds or lakes where there is no copper, a fungus quickly develops, which affects carp".
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