C’anarta c’armomavlobisatvis /წანართა წარმომავლობისათვის [For the Structure of The Noun c̕anar]

Abstract

According to the factual material of the Kartvelian, Abkhazian, Ossetian, Armenian, Greek, and Arabic languages, it is possible to reconstruct the common Georgian ethnic term *tsen-, which was historically one of the Kartvelian ethnic groups, whose residence was called Tsane / Tsanja, and the community from there was referred to as tsanar-. It was the people who settled mainly in the territory of the modern Kazbegi-Tianeti region, whose traces of life in the Mtskheta-Tianeti region also were to be confirmed by the Georgian surnames formed with the suffixes -ish / -sh- of the Laz-Megrelian kinship, cf. Kai-sh-aur-i, Ghudu-sh-aur-i, Ghan-ish-ashvil-i and many others. In the ancient historical period, we see the unmistakable traces of occurrence of the Georgian term Tsan-ar- used to denote Georgian in the Dagestanian language data as well, where the ethnic term *Tsonor- was equal to Georgian man and which chronologically precedes the Gurji / Gurzhi allomorphs of modern and oriental origin. საკვანძო სიტყვები: ქართველური ლექსიკა, ეთნონიმი, ეტიმოლოგია. keywords: Kartvelian vocabulary, ethnonym, etymology.