საქართველო
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Georgian
Etymology
From Old Georgian საქართველო (sakartvelo), equivalent to ქართველი (kartveli, “Georgian”) + სა- -ო (sa- -o), and literally means “a place where Georgians dwell”. The earliest reference to the word occurs in the ninth-century text The Georgian Chronicles. Compare to Laz ოქორთურა (okortura, “Georgia”) and Mingrelian საქორთუო (sakortuo, “Georgia”).
See ქართველი (kartveli) for more.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
საქართველო • (sakartvelo)
- Georgia (A transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea, often considered to belong politically to Europe)
Inflection
| Declension of საქართველო (see Georgian declension) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | archaic plural | |
| nominative | საქართველო (sakartvelo) | ||
| ergative | საქართველომ (sakartvelom) | ||
| dative | საქართველოს (sakartvelos) | ||
| genitive | საქართველოს (sakartvelos) | ||
| instrumental | საქართველოთ (sakartvelot) | ||
| adverbial | საქართველოდ (sakartvelod) | ||
| vocative | საქართველო (sakartvelo) | ||
| Notes: archaic plurals might not exist. | |||
| Postpositional inflection of საქართველო (see Georgian postpositions) | ||
|---|---|---|
| postpositions taking a dative case | singular | plural |
| -ზე (-ze, “on”) | საქართველოზე (sakartveloze) | |
| -თან (-tan, “near”) | საქართველოსთან (sakartvelostan) | |
| -ში (-ši, “in”) | საქართველოში (sakartveloši) | |
| -ვით (-vit, “like”) | საქართველოსავით (sakartvelosavit) | |
| postpositions taking a genitive case | singular | plural |
| -თვის (-tvis, “for”) | საქართველოსთვის (sakartvelostvis) | |
| -ებრ (-ebr, “like”) | საქართველოსებრ (sakartvelosebr) | |
| -კენ (-ḳen, “towards”) | საქართველოსკენ (sakartvelosḳen) | |
| -გან (-gan, “from/of”) | საქართველოსგან (sakartvelosgan) | |
| postpositions taking an instrumental case | singular | plural |
| -დან (-dan, “from/since”) | საქართველოდან (sakartvelodan) | |
| -ურთ (-urt, “together with”) | - | |
| postpositions taking an adverbial case | singular | plural |
| -მდე (-mde, “up to”) | საქართველომდე (sakartvelomde) | |
Descendants
- → English: Sakartvelo
- ⇒ Lithuanian: Sakartvelas
- → Ukrainian: Сакартве́ло (Sakartvélo)