At first glance, the parallel between the name of the Ukrainian river Vorskla, which has never had a satisfactory explanation, and the Georgian word "varskvlavi" - "star" - looks too far-fetched. But this is until both words are, scientifically speaking, "adjusted". First, on the Taurica Hersonesus map the river is called "Vorskola"...
...and second, in Chubinashvili's dictionary "varskvlavi" is written in the variant "varskulavi". In addition, to the word "varskulavi" we have a right to apply the same operation that gave us the pair "kuva-ku" in the dictionary of the same Chubinashvili (also, "datvi-dati", "vepkhi-vepkhvi", etc.). That is, we have the right to discard "v" as a morpheme, which would leave us the stem "varskula". Comparing now "vorskola" and "varskula" is much easier as comparing the original "vorskla" and "varskulavi". And those who doubt the appropriateness of calling the river by the word "star", are to be sent to the north of Italy, where in Udine there flows a river called precisely "star" - Stella. The Vorskla River basin seems to be the core of the settlement of the Ukrainian Kartvelians. In addition to the Vorskla, there are three more rivers of obvious Kartvelian origin: Khorol, Psel and Sula. In addition, the region coincides with Herodotus' Gelon (possibly the Belskoe settlement) and records a number of Kartvelian toponyms, such as Lintvarivka, Balaklia, Poltava, Shishaki and others.
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