CHALDEANS

The topic has recently become popular among kartvelologists. I will add something from myself.

Here is a quote from the book "Babylon" by a certain Margita Figuli:

"... Seeing that the Lydians, brothers of the Chaldeans, were fighting on the side of Cyrus...".

It is known from history that Lydia (which, in fact, is not "Lydia" at all, but "Ludia", because this name was written with an upsilon), Egypt and Chaldea concluded an anti-Persian alliance in 547 BC. Historians place the Chaldeans in Mesopotamia, specifically, in Babylon, and Ludia at that time stretched almost half of modern Turkey (its western half). There is no doubt that the Ludians were Kartvelian-speaking, like the other peoples of ancient Asia Minor. Regarding the Chaldeans, supporters of the Kartvelian past of Mesopotamia will say the same. At least, the the Kartvelian essence of the word "Babylon" was suggested already twice within the "Between Two Iberias" project.

So, now I will go out on a limb to assert that the Lydians (Ludians) and Chaldeans are likely to be the same people. To do this, we need to remember, first, about the Phoenician definite article. And second, remember how the name "Albania" was dissected, when the root "LB" ("lub") was extracted from it.

So, the Phoenician definite article is "Ha-". This is open information. We have seen it at least in the words "Canaan" and "Haleppo". In its simplified version - "A-" - this article is present in hundreds of other toponyms.

By dropping the initial "Ha-" as an article in the word "Chaldea" we get to the true root of the toponym - "LD". As in the case of "Albania", we have the right to assume that the root vowel was dropped (Kartvelian languages ​​love to do this). And, as in the case of Albania, we have the right to assume that this vowel was upsilon. That is, the sound [u]. If this assumption is correct, then the correct spelling of what we know as "Chaldea" is "Ha Ludea". Or "The Ludia", which, in fact, is what we know as "Lydia", we just pronounce incorrectly.

Will we find any confirmation of this hypothesis? Yes, in the Latin name of one of the varieties of ironwood growing in Africa. It is called Fagara chalydea, that is, "Fagara of the Chaldeans".

I recommend looking for the roots of the word "люди" in this name, whose etymology is lost in the wilds of history.