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[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@jesuistouareg Wars start when a country invades another country. Georgia did not invade Russia's territory, Russia did. Even if you argue that they wanted to protect South Ossetia, Russian forces entered Georgian territories even outside of South Ossetia's borders.

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@thomas_wier I always thought Proto-Kartvelian form was ბღუ and Georgian descendant was cognate with others, considering Laz has this exact form according to wiktionary. Also, wouldn't Old Georgian form be written ბუჳ due to convention of writing all wi combinations as ჳ?

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@caucasusvisuals This statue is in Borjomi, which is a town in Samtskhe-Javakheti region famous for its mineral water, not Tbilisi.

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@uncreated_light @Lalibela921 That's incorrect - Ovcharka is just a general Russian word for "Shepherd" (ovca means sheep in Russian). The official name of this breed is Caucasian Shepherd (Kavkazskaya ovcharka in Russian and Kavkasiuri nagazi in Georgian). This is like calling German shepherd just shepherd.

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@Daimmey @sadbathy The Old Permic Script was created by a Russian missionary Stephen of Perm, not by Komis themselves. New scripts were common for converting people to orthodoxy in middle ages - whole reason Cyrillic exists is because of Cyril and Methodius.

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@thatmikhail @Globalstats11 Vehemently untrue that Belarusian and Russian are 100% mutually intelligible. Belarusian has almost exact same vocabulary and grammar as Ukrainian, main difference is pronunciation, which is also distinct from Russian. Using context and understanding a language are not the same.

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@pancaucasus Georgian ღმერთი ɣmerti
Megrelian ღორონთი ɣoronti
Laz ღორმოთი ɣormoti
Svan ღე̄რბე��� ɣērbet

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@hykleri @pancaucasus It comes from Proto-Kartvelian word ɣamort, which just means god. It's found in every Kartvelian language.

Georgian ღმერთი ɣmerti
Megrelian ღორონთი ɣoronti
Laz ღორმოთი ɣormoti
Svan ღე̄რბეთ ɣērbet

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@MMydw60280 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@pancaucasus This map belongs to the instagram user @georgianmaps, who creates maps about Caucasus and other regions on their own. Please credit them.

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@noop_dev @maxfras ѧ (small yus) for ę, ѫ (big yus) for ą. They're Church Slavonic Letters. For ł there isn't really an option, neither for rz. Although, one could transcribe rz using рь, which is the reflex in east slavic for west slavic ř.

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@WryCritic Polish is unique in that regard - stan not only has a meaning on its own, but it's inherited vocabulary directly from proto-slavic rather than a borrowing.

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@WryCritic While all you have written is true, -stan has no independent meaning in Russian - most of Russian republics got their names from Persian. Turkic languages and Armenian borrowed the suffix directly from Persian to create new placenames (like Lehistan).

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@undrawbill @ThisIsAndro @ArnoAlahverdian @HovhanNaz first word on the second image is probably სახ^თა, a karagma (abbreviated) form of სახელითა

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@samba_drome @BiruniKhorasan no. The stem of Sakartvelo is kartvel, sa- is a preffix meaning "land of". So it means "land of Kartvels".

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@xav_moss @BiruniKhorasan Another theory is that the name comes from Greek and means 'land worker'. There is also a widespread opinion that it's just a Greek vatiant of Persian Gorgistan, which does mean land of wolves. One of Georgian kings was called Vakhtang Gorgasal, or wolfhead.

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@xav_moss @BiruniKhorasan No, Georgia and Gurj is an exonym, something other people call us. Georgians actually call ourselves Kartvelians (etymology unknown). Saint George happens to be patron saint of Georgia, allegeadly that's why Greeks called the country Georgia.

[Dote Nabdeme @Lamasg83]

@MichaelBakening @luobro Georgian p'uri comes from ancient greek pyros, which means wheat. Initially, this word meant "wheat", but later became representative of wheat flour bread. Indian poori has a different etymology: Sanskrit pura, which means "filled". It's a coincidence