Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sakartvelo

/ˌsɑkɑɹtˈvɛloʊ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Sa-kart-velo
IPA: /ˌsɑkɑɹtˈvɛloʊ/

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Georgia (“a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea. Capital: Tbilisi”).

Example Sentences

"A party of men joined us and soon the toasts began – to Sakartvelo, to Ireland, to me, to them. We drank from horns and I managed to empty both mine without pausing for breath."
"God looked down and saw the people of Sakartvelo. "Holy cow," thought God (or words to that effect), "I completely forgot about those people. If I don't give them something, they are going to make a terrible nuisance of themselves.""
"While previously there had been independent early feudal political units (the Egris-Abkhazian kingdom, the Kartvelian (Tao-Klarjeti), Kakheti and Hereti kingdoms, and the Tbilisi emirate), and the struggle for the country's unification had been waged between these kingdoms at the end of the tenth century the Georgian lands began to amalgamate around Sakartvelo (united Georgia)."
"As to the Kartvelian/Georgian culture specifically, as R. Tvardze put it, "The fact that Sakartvelo/Georgia happened to join the Christian orbital has had an enormous impact on the spiritual molding of the Georgian nation.""

Etymology

Borrowed from Georgian საქართველო (sakartvelo), from Old Georgian საქართველო (sakartvelo), from ქართველი (kartveli, “(adjective) of Georgian descent; (noun) person from Georgia”) + სა- -ო (sa- -o, circumfix forming words relating to the concept or thing which the stem to which it is attached refers). ქართველი (kartveli) is ultimately derived from Proto-Kartvelian *kart- (“eastern Georgia; Georgian people”) (whence ქართლი (kartli, “Kartli, historical region of Georgia in the central and eastern part of the country”)).

Word Breakdown

Root: საქართველო, *kart-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌsɑkɑɹtˈvɛloʊ/
British English: /ˌsɑːkɑːtˈvɛləʊ/

Frequently Paired Words

Kartvelian

Synonyms

Georgia

Rhymes With

fellow hello yellow mellow cello 'cello jello bellow jell-o portobello bordello violoncello

Questions

How do you pronounce sakartvelo?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌsɑkɑɹtˈvɛloʊ/.
What does sakartvelo mean?: Synonym of Georgia (“a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea. Capital: Tbilisi”).
Where does sakartvelo come from?: Borrowed from Georgian საქართველო (sakartvelo), from Old Georgian საქართველო (sakartvelo), from ქართველი (kartveli, “(adjective) of Georgian descent; (noun) person from Georgia”) + სა- -ო (sa- -o, circumfix forming words relating to the concept or thing which the stem to which it is attached refers). ქართველი (kartveli) is ultimately derived from Proto-Kartvelian *kart- (“eastern Georgia; Georgian people”) (whence ქართლი (kartli, “Kartli, historical region of Georgia in the central and eastern part of the country”)).

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