საქართველო
Georgian
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editProper noun
editსაქართველო • (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
edit Declension of საქართველო (see Georgian declension)
singular | plural | archaic plural | |
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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 |
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-ზე (on - ) | საქართველოზე (sakartveloze) | |
-თან (near - ) | საქართველოსთან (sakartvelostan) | |
-ში (in - ) | საქართველოში (sakartveloši) | |
-ვით (like a - ) | საქართველოსავით (sakartvelosavit) | |
postpositions taking a genitive case | singular | plural |
-თვის (for - ) | საქართველოსთვის (sakartvelostvis) | |
-ებრ (like a - ) | საქართველოსებრ (sakartvelosebr) | |
-კენ (towards - ) | საქართველოსკენ (sakartvelosḳen) | |
-გან (from/of - ) | საქართველოსგან (sakartvelosgan) | |
postpositions taking an instrumental case | singular | plural |
-დან (from / since - ) | საქართველოდან (sakartvelodan) | |
-ურთ (together with - ) | - | |
postpositions taking an adverbial case | singular | plural |
-მდე (up to - ) | საქართველომდე (sakartvelomde) |
Descendants
edit- → English: Sakartvelo
- ⇒ Lithuanian: Sakartvelas
- → Ukrainian: Сакартве́ло (Sakartvélo)
Categories:
- Georgian terms inherited from Old Georgian
- Georgian terms derived from Old Georgian
- Georgian terms circumfixed with სა- -ო
- Georgian 4-syllable words
- Georgian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Georgian terms with audio links
- Georgian lemmas
- Georgian proper nouns
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