PARIS

The city of Paris is historically closely connected with absinthe, which was recognized a long time ago as a drug. At the beginning of the century there was even such a novel "Absinthe: Drama of Paris". So, absinthe and Paris are close. The idea is that both words - "absinthe" and "Paris" mean the same thing: wormwood. One word is Latin, the second is Georgian (ფარისი). The absinthe drink is actually a wormwood tincture. The name "Paris", as we are told, comes from the local tribe "parisii", who had obvious relatives in British Yorkshire, where Ptolemy places the tribe with the same name - "Parisi". The name of the tribes may quite relate to the name of the plant, from which a narcotic tincture used to be made even in ancient Rome times.

Now see the "Lutetia" entry.