Kurds and Georgians [and Basques]

[Wolfgang Schulze]

Remember that the term 'Iveria' etc. for the Georgians stems from
Armenian iver-k` (Plural) 'Georgians'. As far as I know there are
several proposals to relate the Armenian word to an IE source or to
derive it from another Armenian source such as 'i ver' 'above' etc..
This would give us 'iverk`' = 'those who live/are above (=north) of us'.

Wolfgang

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulze
Institut für Allgemeine und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft
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