VARDULI

The names of a whole group of ancient Iberian tribes of Spain end with the Georgian adjectival suffix "-ul": turduli, bastuli, varduli. Indo-Europeans consider each of these names as a noun and, accordingly, call them turduli, bastuli and varduli, not recognizing the adjectives in them, and perceiving the final "-i" as a Latin plural. This is not so. Each of these words is an adjective, and the final "-i" is the ending of the Georgian nominative case in both singular and plural. Compare to the Georgian adjectives Imeruli, Kahuli, Guruli, etc. It is especially worth noting that the so-called "Turduli" and "Bastuli" have alternative names on Ptolemy's map: "Turdetani" and "Bastetani", proving that the words are indeed Kartvelian, and that the roots here are "Turd-" and "Bast-". As for the "Varduli", the name of this tribe comes from the Georgian root "vardi", meaning "rose". The tribe itself thus becomes "pink", "rosy" or "related to roses", and, by the way, echoes the name of the Illyrian king Vardullis of the time of Philip of Macedon.