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Speedy deletion nomination of Medea Japaridze


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Tornike
Hello! You still miss the point: a) you are guessing as to what the name might mean by isolating one element of it, which is original research and b) this is a futile exercise since, as I said already, the entire name represents the hellenized form of a Caucasian name, since the first Tornikios was a Georgian/Armenian prince. It is therefore unlikely that the name is supposed to have any meaning in Greek. The error is compounded by confusing the Greek and Georgian forms: the Greek form is Tornikios, not Tornike, hence "nike" doesn't appear in the name at all. True, the "nikios" element could result from nike, but you can take my word for it as a native Greek-speaker that this isn't the case here. Rather the original name, probably something like "Tornik", was hellenized through the addition of "ikios". Cheers, Constantine  ✍  14:25, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Attaching "Nike" at the end of names is a common practice in Georgia, as proven by the new source I added. The name itself is not Greek, it merely incorporates it, that is why I changed the text to "influenced by Greek." This is actually what the source says, so no original research.--Andriabenia (talk) 14:37, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I am sorry, I can't read Georgian, so I can't judge on the accuracy of your source. However, the examples you cite are wrong: "Andronike" is a perfectly good Greek name (Ανδρονίκη), and "Kalenike" (probably a corruption of something like Καλλινίκη) likewise. It would seem that these names were taken wholesale into Georgian, and not modified at all. The ending therefore is not "added" in Georgian, but taken over from the original Greek names. "Tornike" isn't Greek, period. Constantine  ✍  14:40, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * No, I never said Tornike was Greek, the sources says that it is a Georgian name that mimics Greek names like Andronike and Kalenike. I could not think of that word in English but this discussion brought it to my head. I will changed the article to reflect this and perhaps that will clear things up.--Andriabenia (talk) 14:46, 6 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Let me make myself clear: the whole "nike" addition is useless and misleading. The article writes that a) "Nike is often used in Georgia as a name ending" and b) that "Tornike can be interpreted as "the victorious one"". The first seems to be irrelevant since the examples cited are taken straight from Greek and barely modified to fit Georgian phonology hence have nothing to do specifically with the Georgian language. In other words, if many Georgian names were adopted from Greek, then of course "nike" would be a common element. It does not follow that it has a specific meaning, or that it was "added" to the name by the Georgians: the succession is *Tornik->Tornikios->Tornike. The Greek ending was "Georgianized", that is all. Point b) is the main problem, since as I stated, the name is not supposed to have any meaning in Greek. From what I can make out (via Google Translate) from the website, it asserts that the "nike" element is Greek and gives other Greek names as examples, not "like Greek" or "mimicking Greek". Unless in Georgian a name with "nike" at its end has something to do with victory, the suggested etymology is simply wrong. The form "Tornike" may or may not be intended to mimic Greek names adopted into Georgian and ending in "-nike" (which is not what the site says), but mimicking the phonetic form isn't the same as carrying over the meaning from another language. For instance, William in Greek is "Γουλιέλμος" (Ghoulielmos), taken via Latin Gulielmus from French Guillaume and ultimately German Wilhelm. No one would go about seeking any meaning in the "-elmus" cluster from Latin. You would have to go to the original root to find any meaning, and in our case this is the tentative "*Tornik-" element. Anything else is a paretymology.  Constantine   ✍  15:27, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

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Satt 2 SPI case
Stop edit warring over the hatnotes. You've already broken WP:3RR (1, 2, 3) so the next reversion will be a block. Wikipedians understand condensed notes - and they're Mathsci's notes that are being condensed, anyway, so it doesn't affect your side of the case. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 18:03, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

January 2012
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