Georgify

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English

Etymology

From Georgian +‎ -ify.

Verb

Georgify (third-person singular simple present Georgifies, present participle Georgifying, simple past and past participle Georgified)

  1. to make Georgian
    • 1992, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia:
      Since that time they have been constantly trying to Georgify Abkhazia.
    • 2006, Acta Slavica Iaponica:
      Vostorgov, a conservative cleric with administrative experience in the Caucasus, argued that he could cite numerous examples "of the crudest efforts to Georgify the Abkhazians and Оssetians, I could point to tens of parishes and schools in which Georgian is being forcibly imposed."
    • 2013, Sten Berglund, The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 777:
      In regards to Adjaria, authorities in Tbilisi invested extraordinary effort into Georgifying names and prohibiting religious customs, causing the Muslim inhabitants of the region to increasingly identify themselves as Georgian (Derluguian 1998).