The town of Navarrevisca in central Spain looks surprising. At first, it does not attract attention, being surrounded by, seemingly, cognate toponyms with the root "nava-", which the Spaniards interpret as "plain". But a meticulous researcher is still obliged to take into account the name as potentially Kartvelian for several reasons.
First, the kinship with the word "Navarre" is too obvious, although the Spaniards ignore it. Second, and most importantly, the root of the name - "Navarrevi" - is too ideal a Kartvelian construction to be ignored. The prefix "na-" in combination with the suffix "-evi" is a flawless construction, needed by the rules of Kartvelian morphology to form the "former place <of the root>". Compare to Nakalakevi. And the root here is the same as in the case of "Navarra" - "varri", or rather, "vardi". Note that "s" in "Navarrevisca" stands for the genitive case ending, needed to tie to the following "ca".As for the final "-ca" morpheme, in Zan languages it (ყა) means "branch".
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