Tbilisi - "the Warm Place"
hello,
i read once that the name of Georgian capital city Tbilisi [თბილისი] means "warm place" in Georgian.
i checked it with this German<->Georgian dictionary and indeed 'warm' is "tbili" [თბილი].
Georgian belongs to South Caucasian languages and is not related to any Indoeuropean language.
but when i first learned that "Tbilisi" means "warm place", i found it similar to Slavic word meaning 'warm': Russian тёплый [tyoplii], Polish "ciepły" and so on.
is it just a coincidence that tbili [თბილი] and tyoplii [тёплый] have both the same meanings in both languages? or maybe it is a loanword from Russian?
excuse me, i know nothing about Georgian grammar and history of this language. :)
thanks in advance for answering. :)
i read once that the name of Georgian capital city Tbilisi [თბილისი] means "warm place" in Georgian.
i checked it with this German<->Georgian dictionary and indeed 'warm' is "tbili" [თბილი].
Georgian belongs to South Caucasian languages and is not related to any Indoeuropean language.
but when i first learned that "Tbilisi" means "warm place", i found it similar to Slavic word meaning 'warm': Russian тёплый [tyoplii], Polish "ciepły" and so on.
is it just a coincidence that tbili [თბილი] and tyoplii [тёплый] have both the same meanings in both languages? or maybe it is a loanword from Russian?
excuse me, i know nothing about Georgian grammar and history of this language. :)
thanks in advance for answering. :)