Monday, November 11, 2013

GARAMANTES

As already has been said many times, now everything reads and explains from Kartvelian languages.

The ancient inhabitants of Libya, called Garamantes, with high level of confidence contain the Kartvelian toponymic suffix too: GARAMAN(E)TES, from which we derive GARAMANETI, 'land of garamani'. In its turn, GARAMANI contains the adjetive suffix -AN, which leaves us with the root GARAM.

The search of the word გარამი (garami) didn't last long. It's precipice in Megrelian. Thus, 'Garamani' would mean 'related to precipices', or, for example, 'living among precipices'. And finally, 'Garamaneti' would mean literally 'land of those living among precipices'.

Does the land of Garamantes have anything to do with precipices?

Here is a description of that part of Libya:
"...Elsewhere along the Cyrenaican coast, the precipice of an arid plateau reaches to the sea...".

And here is what their capital, Germa, looks like, surrounded by steep mountains:


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