Sunday, September 1, 2013

NAZRAN'

The kartvelogists know that mukhnari is 'oak place' for mukha is oak:

MUKHNARI = MUKH + N + AR + I

Interestingly, sometimes the word mukhnari is crooked into mukhrani:

http://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/მუხრანი_(მხარე)

But if can do this with oaks, why not do the same with fir-trees? 

In Nazaret entry we assumes that naz might mean fir-tree. So, naznari would means place of fir-trees. But if we crook it the way we did with oaks, we'll end up having NAZRANI. That's exactly the name of Ingushetian capital - НАЗРАНЬ. Note that even the soft sign corresponds to Kartvelian nominative case i-ending.

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