ANATOLIAN TOPONYMS IN KARTVELIAN SURNAMES

Those familiar with Georgia know how wide-spread the local surnames ending with -SHVILI or -DZE are. Very often including the Georgians themselves know what the roots that precede those ending mean.

We can help them. Let's take the toponyms from the Ptolemy's map, then add -SHVILI or -DZE to them and see if we end up having really existing Georgian family names. Let's start with Anatolia. Its Ptolemy's map is still free of greekisms and turkisms.

Babura - Baburashvili
Kurba - Kurbashvili
Tuma - Tumadze
Kudna - Kudnadze
Angira - Angirashvili
Tobata - Tobatadze
Armena - Armenashvili (the surname, as we see, has nothing to di with Armenia. It's derived from Armena, a town near Sinop in Paphlagonia)
Gelata - Gelatashvili
Karima - Karimashvili
Odoga - Odogashvili
Korna - Kornashvili
Metita - Metitashvili
Mandara - Mandarashvili
Dagona - Dagonadze
Arana - Aranadze
Karapa - Karapashvili
Orsena (tribe) - Orsenadze
Domana - Domanashvili
Satala - Sataladze
Tapura - Tapurashvili
Zela - Zeladze
Ablata - Ablotia
Puska - Puskashvili
Kibra - Kibradze
Prusa - Prusadze
Gallikha - Galikhadze
Mirina - Mirinashvili
Lagira - Lagirashvili
Kadana - Kadanashvili
Sismara - Sizmaradze
Arkhalla - Arkhaladze
Kamana - Kamandze
Kodiba - Kodibadze

All those Kartvelian surnames exist, you can easily check that youselves. No need to say that so far none of them had any reliable etymology. Not anymore...