GABRETA

The toponym "Gabreta" is present on Ptolemy's map on the border of today's Czechia and Bavaria, coinciding with the Bavarian Forest, which was previously called "Krkonoše". "Gabreta", if interpreted from the Kartvelian point of view, is "land of the gabri". "Gabr" is "hornbeam", although not in Kartvelian, but in Slavic (the same root is present in the Bulgarian toponym "Gabrovo"). But combinations of non-Kartvelian roots with Kartvelian morphemes are encountered repeatedly. In addition, many ancient Kartvelian words from various European regions may not have reached modern Kartvelian languages but were preserved in the local non-Kartvelian languages.