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МОИСЕЙ
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МОИСЕЙ

Che Tosco June 04, 2025

By the same principle outlined in previous sections, how should the name Moisei (Moses in Ukrainian and Russian )  be interpreted? As the Georgian adjective &q…

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SUDAN
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SUDAN

Che Tosco June 04, 2025

To understand that "Sudan(i)" is an adjective derived from the root "sudi," one doesn’t need much imagination. And "sudi" is, …

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AFRICA
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AFRICA

Che Tosco June 04, 2025

The word "Africa" lacks a definitive etymology. However, it ends with the Kartvelian toponymic suffix "-ika" , which appears in the name o…

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FELUCCA
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FELUCCA

Che Tosco June 04, 2025

Did you know that the famous Egyptian sailing boat, the felucca , has an almost identical counterpart in Megrelia — "ფილუკა" (philuka)? The Megrelia…

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PAPYRUS
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PAPYRUS

Che Tosco May 29, 2025

The pair "პატული = ფათური" from Otari Kajaia’s dictionary demonstrates that the Georgian letters "პ" and "ფ" can be interchang…

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NILE
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NILE

Che Tosco March 14, 2025

Since "na" (ნა) means "reed" in Georgian, then "nili" would be a passive participle which would impeccably mean "reeded"…

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PTOLEMY'S TOPONYMS AS GEORGIAN SURNAMES' ROOTS: AFRICA
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PTOLEMY'S TOPONYMS AS GEORGIAN SURNAMES' ROOTS: AFRICA

Che Tosco March 14, 2025

Abdira – Abdirashvili Vasana – Vasanashvili Galiba – Galibashvili Gerba – Gerbashvili Dulia – Duliashvili Durga – Durgashvili Karaga – Karagashvili Longa – Lon…

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TXAKUR
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TXAKUR

Che Tosco March 14, 2025

"Txakur" [chakur] means "dog" in Basque. ჯოგორი [jogori] means "dog" in Megrelian. As intermediate links in the “dog chain”, we s…

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PATARBEMIS
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PATARBEMIS

Che Tosco March 14, 2025

Herodotus mentions an ancient Egyptian named Patarbemis, whose name consists of two Georgian roots: patara ("small") and "bemi" - "ran…

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SATACHTUM
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SATACHTUM

Che Tosco March 09, 2025

A little further downstream from the city of Sacolca, Ptolemy's map shows another toponym with a Kartvelian name - Satachtum. Since "takhti" in G…

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SANYANG
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SANYANG

Che Tosco March 08, 2025

An incredible toponym Sanyang exists in Gambia as a village. Its incredibleness lies in the fact that the Kartvelian prefix "Sa-", used to construct …

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SACOLCA
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SACOLCA

Che Tosco March 07, 2025

One of the most remarkable Kartvelian toponyms in the ancient world is the city of Sacolca , marked on Ptolemy’s map in Nubia (modern-day Sudan). In the accomp…

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PHOTIS
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PHOTIS

Che Tosco March 07, 2025

Opposite the ancient Egyptian city of Aswan, which itself is a unique Kartvelian toponym of the ancient world, in the time of Ptolemy there was the city of Pho…

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MEGABARII
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MEGABARII

Che Tosco March 06, 2025

Diodorus Siculus, Strabo and Pliny tell of an Ethiopian tribe called "Megabari". It lived to the east of the Nile, not far from Meroe. In Georgian,…

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EGYPT
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EGYPT

Che Tosco March 04, 2025

It is quite difficult to understand what the original pronunciation of " Egypt" was, since the name is written differently in different languages. Th…

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ASWAN
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ASWAN

Che Tosco March 03, 2025

Ancient Egyptian Aswan, mentioned on Ptolemy's map as Soene, previously bore the name Swenet, which, first of all, being a Georgia "-eti"-toponym…

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ARGO
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ARGO

Che Tosco March 03, 2025

The history of Kartvelian ties with Africa is not impressive enough until you recall Herodotus's story about the warriors of Pharaoh Sesostris, who broke a…

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