The 9th century Arab writer Ibn Khordadbekh, who wrote about the Berbers, mentions such Berber tribes as Zanata, Lubata and Muzata. According to Klimov (more precisely, according to Marr) the Kartvelian toponymic suffix "-et" corresponds to the Zan suffix "-at", then the names easily turn into "Zaneti", "Lubeti" and "Muzeti". "Zaneti" is the "country of the Zans", as the Svans call the Megrels and Lazes. "Muzeti" is the very well-known country of Mysia in western Anatolia. But the true sound of this toponym is "Musia", since in Greek the name is written with an upsilon. And between the vowels "s" has a high chance of becoming voiced and turning into "z" - "Muzia". Finally, "Lubeti" is another confirmation of the existence of the Lube people, known in Anatolia as the Chalybes. The same Ibn-Khordadbekh calls Palestine (Filastin), known to us as the Kartvelian "Eber-Nar", and as Kartvelian "Ha-Naan", and as Kartvelian "Lubnan", the ancient ancestral home of the Berbers.
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