DEVLETI

Now let's have a look at the "legacy" of Niko Marr, who is so often quoted and considered a great linguist. Let me remind you that Marr was Stalin's favorite, who he had at his disposal the entire scientific linguistic apparatus of the USSR. That's hundreds of thousands of professional linguists. This did not prevent him from remaining blind to the obvious Kartvelian past of the entire ancient world. So, although Marr is considered a Megrelian, I have the deepest doubts about his Kartvelian essence. As well as about the Kartvelian essence of Stalin, by the way, who had in his hands all the evidence of the Kartvelian origin of the world and did nothing to tell that to the world.

In his Laz dictionary, which is given at the end of his book "Grammar of the Chan language", Marr gives the word "დევლეთი" (devleti) - "state" - which he etymologically interprets as "T.-Arab.", that is, a Turkish-Arabic loanword. It does not occur to Marr (or perhaps it does, but he does not want to say it) the elementary idea that "devleti" is a purely Kartvelian toponymic construction "davleti", derived from the purely Georgian root "davla" (the prefix "da" and the root "vla") - "touring", "travelling around" (to travel, to go round), which perfectly suits the concept of "state" etymologically. There is even a word "davala" from the same root, meaning "the most distant point", that is, the border of the state in our case. For what reason did the initial "da-" turn into "de-" (no one has spoken about such Georgian-Laz alternation yet) is evident literally two centimeters higher in the same dictionary, where Marr himself cites the word "დე" (de) in the meaning of "also", "yet" (and also with a reference to a Turkish, allegedly, borrowing). While this is nothing other than the fundamental Georgian conjunction "da" ("and")!

Where was "Megrelian" Marr and the hundred thousand certified linguists under his command looking? What were they looking for at all?

And such Turkish-Arabic-Persian "borrowings" are found in Marr's Laz dictionary on every second page. And these tales about borrowings are repeated today by various Georgians, including within the walls of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. Now think about whether Marr was indeed a Kartvelian, and if he was not, how a non-Kartvelian could be Stalin's favorite and head Soviet linguistics. Accordingly, was Stalin himself a Georgian, if he had in his hands the proof that the whole world came from a Kartvelian-speaking civilization, but decided to conceal it?