Linguistics
The origin and etymology of mythical amazons are represented in the given work. As it turned out, the Amazons were the inhabitants of Amazy. Even the lexeme Amazon//amazun//amozon comes from the root amaz//mas//maz. In this root the prefix a- is lost. In the word amazon -on(un) represents the oldest Kartvelian (Megrelian-Chanian or Georgian) multitude-collective expressing post-position. Compare: georg. Bali-megr. Buli, "cherry" from this: Buloni "a garden plot place planted with cherry-trees". In Amazon//amazon z//\ in Kartvelian (Georgian) languages deals with the known phonetic phenomenon. The word amor\ali is a Georgian-Kartvelian one. Amorzali - amor\ali "amoceli", "amimoseli" in which -al represents the post-position denoting an origin, locality (compare: megreli - margali) where the phone r is a later developed phone or the dialectical variant -s. Compare: old georgian s\e - or georgian r\e.
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