As it was with other Hispano-Iberian tribes on Ptolemy's map, the name "Ceretani" is an adjective derived from the toponym "Tsereti" (compare to the famous Georgian surname "Tsereteli", which is also an adjective derived from the toponym "Tsereti").
The root, in this case, is the word "tseri", and "Tsereti" translates as "the country of tseri" and coincides with today's flat region of Cerdanya, located among the Pyrenees.
In Georgian, "tseri" (წერი) means "haystack". Thus, "Tsereti" translates as "the country of haystacks". A very natural name for a flat region, surrounded on all sides by mountains.
The effectiveness of the hypothesis that Cerdanya should be full of haystacks is proven in the film "Kartvelian Spain", whose author (coincidentally, the author of these lines) assumed the presence of a sufficient number of haystacks to identify the entire region with them, even before traveling to Cerdanya, and he was right. Haystacks appear in large numbers on both sides of the road immediately upon entering the Cerdanya plain, quite a contrast after the mountain roads. It is obvious that Cereti (Cerdanya) was an agricultural region in ancient times, which the Kartvelian-speaking tribes who lived in these places did not fail to reflect in its name.
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