Wednesday, August 7, 2013

SAPRANGETI / PERANGI

"... On the women's clothing of the ancient Gauls information remained scarce. Some coins of the time of Emperor Hadrian the province of Gaul allegorically was portrayed as a woman dressed in a long belted shirt. Later rich Gallic women began to wear a tunic ... "
http://www.butik.com.ua/mir_modi/histor07_galls.htm

If you try to name a country where people wear shirts from the Kartvelian point of view you'll end up with saperange, or perangeti, or, likely, saprangeti, using the Kartvelian root perangi - 'shirt'.

Saprangeti is Kartvelian for 'France'.

This astounding hypothesis will be considered grounded once Gauls' preference to wear shirts is proven.

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