ILION

In search for the Kartveian iterpretation of Troy's alternative name - Ilion (Ilios) - we will surely come across a necessity to look for the 'il(i)' root. It's present in pure form in Georgian dictionary in the meaning of 'cardamom'. The traces of cardamom in Minor Asia have not been discovered. But something different have...

It's the multiple alternations between 'i' and 'e' in the Megrelian dictionary of Kajaia. It lets equal 'ili' to 'eli'. While 'eli' in Kajaia's dictionary has a beautiful archaic meaning of 'country', 'land'. So, 'Ilios' or simply 'Ili' (without the Greek ending) may be '(native) land'.

By the way, it's very close to Hellas as well (Helas, Hellada = Ellati = Elleti = ელლეთი). The problem is to determine the origin of the doule 'll'. Also it's close to Illyria, which was also told about and which also has the double 'll'. The alternative interpretations of both Hellas and Illyria have been told about too.