GARMATI TAURIANI

A stunning and impeccably Kartvelian toponym has been sitting in the Primary Chronicle for a thousand years, In this fundamental source the mountainous Crimea is called "Garmati Tavriani". The word "Garmati" is the Zan equivalent of the Kartvelian "Garmeti" and contains the Megrelian root "garami", meaning "precipice", "abyss". While "Tavriani" is a common Kartvelian adjective, formed from the Georgian adjective "tauri" or from the Megrelian word "taure" (see the corresponding articles).

Whether it is appropriate to call the mountainous Crimea "the land of precipices" is an unnecessary question (lots of them there).