Where does “ქართლი” come from?
ქართლი (Old Georgian) comes from Proto-Kartvelian kart-, from Finnish kärsi, from Proto-Finnic karci.
ქართლი (Old Georgian): Kartli
Ancestry of “ქართლი”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Proto-Kartvelian | kart- | — |
| 2 | Finnish | kärsi | Third-person singular indicative past form of... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | karci | — |
Words derived from “ქართლი”