Editing Georgian language (section)

==Vocabulary==
[[File:AmCyc Georgia (Russian Transcaucasia) - Georgian language - Tariel (last verse).png|thumb|The last verse of [[Shota Rustaveli]]'s romance ''[[The Knight in the Panther's Skin]]'' illustrating the appearance of the Georgian script.]]
Georgian has a rich [[derivation (linguistics)|word-derivation]] system. By using a root, and adding some definite prefixes and suffixes, one can derive many nouns and adjectives from the root. For example, from the root -''kart''-, the following words can be derived: ''Kart'''veli''''' ('a Georgian person'), ''Kart'''uli''''' ('the Georgian language') and '''''Sa'''kart'''velo''''' ('the country of Georgia').

Most [[Georgian surnames]] end in -''dze'' 'son' (Western Georgia), -''shvili'' 'child' (Eastern Georgia), -''ia'' (Western Georgia, [[Samegrelo]]), -''ani'' (Western Georgia, [[Svaneti]]), -''uri'' (Eastern Georgia), etc. The ending -''eli'' is a particle of nobility, comparable to French ''de'', Dutch ''van'', German ''von'' or Polish -''ski''.

Georgian has a [[vigesimal]] numeric system like [[Basque language|Basque]] and (partially) [[French language|French]]. Numbers greater than 20 and less than 100 are described as the sum of the greatest possible multiple of 20 plus the remainder. For example, "93" literally translates as 'four times twenty plus thirteen' ({{lang|ka|ოთხმოცდაცამეტი}}, ''otkhmotsdatsamet’i'').

One of the most important Georgian dictionaries is the ''[[Explanatory dictionary of the Georgian language]]'' ({{lang|ka|ქართული ენის განმარტებითი ლექსიკონი}}). It consists of eight volumes and about 115,000 words. It was produced between 1950 and 1964, by a team of linguists under the direction of [[Arnold Chikobava]].