The most remarkable thing in Hunology is the fact that on Ptolemy's map the Huns are present in Ukraine two centuries before their "official" appearance in the northern Black Sea region, as history textbooks tell us. Ptolemy gives the name both in Greek and in Latin. And since the tribe was located in the very center of Kartvelian-speaking Ukraine, we are obliged to look for the etymology of the word "Huns" (or rather, the word "Huni", as seen in Ptolemy) in Kartvelian sources.
A short search leads to the desired "Huni" (ხუნი) in the remarkable dictionary compiled by Ariane Chanturia and his friends, where this word has the meaning "fast (colour)", "likely to fade". Synonyms for this meaning will be the words "fickle", "changeable", "unreliable". And this is how the Roman historian Marcellinus describes the Huns:
"... Inconstant and treacherous in agreements, the Huns immediately change their course of action as soon as they sense where the profit is: they understand no more than animals what is honest and what is dishonest. They conduct their very conversation ambiguously and mysteriously. No religion binds them in any way. They believe in nothing and worship only gold. Their morals are so fickle and quarrelsome that on the same day, without any reason, they quarrel and make peace...".
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