MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (TRIALETI) CULTURE IN EASTERN GEORGIA AND THE ARYAN RECEPTIO

Abstract

The story about the Aryan clans passing the Great Caucasian range, moving towards Mesopotamia and leaving some of their men in what is now Eastern and Southern Georgia has been already told. Their involvement into integratory processes being active there about the 15th c. B.C. was so deep, that, even losing completely their identity, still they managed to establish all local lexical terms linked up with newly founded political semantics according to their own pattern. Name of Aryan god (devi) of the sun and social contract, Mithra, became phonetical prototype for the Georgian words like “martva” (rule), “samartali” (law) etc.If suffix-system of the Georgian language observed thoroughly, one can notice the Aryan influence even there.In the remoted times, the Georgian surnames were derived with the help of suffux ian (ex. Pharnavaz-ian-i) and the places where those big clans dwelt sometimes had name derived with suffix is.Both of them are the common suffixes for Indo-European languages, mostly for ethnonyms, partly for the surnames (like in Persian and Armenian languages).We are inclined to consider the Aryans to implement their suffixes for the Georgian surnames and toponyms.From Eastern Georgia these suffixes moved to Western Georgia. Indeed, in the highlands we have still the surnames with ian suffix.