Two Ukrainian rivers at once – Ingul and Ingulets – have a direct relative in Megrelia, the Inguri River. The alternation of “r” and “l” between the Georgian and Zan languages is noted many times: “guli” and “guri”, “mgeli” and “mgeri”, etc. As for the root's meaning, for now the most believeable seems to be the Svan word ინღა (inga) meaning "raspberry". It would produce exactly "Inguli/Inguri" as its adjective. While "Ingulets" is a Ukrainian diminutive word for "Ingul".
The great Georgian river Inguri has no clear etymology. There are only hypotheses.
Meanwhile the word interprets perfectly from the point of view of Georgian morphology.
In the Svan language, "inga" (ინღა) is "raspberry" (dictionary of Karpez Dondua).
Thus, "inguri" would be the adjective "raspberry (river)". There have always been plenty of raspberries along the Inguri.
The objection that Inguri (ინგური) and "inguri" (ინღა) are written with different Georgian "g" (plosive and fricative) is not accepted. Within the same Georgian dictionary, you will find, for example, the Georgian goose "gergeti" written with both the plosive (გერგეტი) and fricative (ღერღეტი) "g".
All this applies to the same extent to the Ukrainian river Ingul (and its derivative Ingulets). The suffixes "-ul" and "-ur" are the same in Georgian. There have always been plenty of raspberries along the Ingul (aka Ingulets). And those who think that calling a river "Raspberry" is stupid, should go to Siberia and Sakhalin, where there are two rivers named "Malinovaya" (Raspberry). One is a tributary of the Lena, the other is a tributary of the Pilenga.
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