The name of this tribe in central Italy (the correct interpretation is obviously "Samneti"), as was already the case with a number of other tribes, is not the name of a people, but the name of a country, since it has the ending "-eti". The previous interpretation of this word, which was given in the first volume of the book, should be replaced with the following one.
The root is "samani" meaning "border" in Georgian (Chanturia), as the Samnites at a moment lived across the border from the Rome. Note that the Umbri, who are Samnetes' ancestors, translate from the Kartvelian point perfectly.
Although honestly, we should also know that "samani" in Laz means "straw". Thus, "Samneti" also is "land of straw".
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