We learn about the Suessetani tribe from the work of Guillermo Fatas, according to whom they lived in Aragon and had a capital in Corbio. The name looks interesting and even funny, since it is interpreted from the Kartvelian point of view several times. First, as was the case with the other Iberian tribes with a similar name structure, we need to highlight the actual toponym "Suesseti", which translates as "land of the Suessi". Then, remembering the identity of the endings "-ess" and "-et", we interpret "suesi" as "sueti", that is, "land of the sua/sui".
Such a heap of Kartvelian toponymic constructions looks natural to the Romans, who had no idea about the rules of Kartvelian morphology. Nor did they suspect that most of the toponyms of the Roman Empire should be considered from the Kartvelian point of view. The root "sua" is the same root as in the word "svan"/"suan"/"shuan", denoting a representative of a key nationality both in Georgia and in Europe as a whole. This same root is most likely present in the words "Sweden", "Switzerland", "Swabia", as well as in the name of the Suession tribe in Belgium.
But also "svi" means "hops" in Georgian.
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