ქართველი

Etymology
From ; see below. Cognate with Mingrelian and Laz. 🇨🇬 is probably from the same source.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of Georgian descent

Noun

 * 1) person from the country of Georgia in the Caucasus; Georgian.

Etymology
Ultimately from, which also produced a placename , thus, originally, the term referred to an inhabitant of the Georgian core central region of (the eastern part of present Georgia, Known to Classical authors as Iberia).

Klimov considers Svan to be borrowed from Georgian. He reconstructs the root as and derives  from inflected. He also points out that this Proto-Georgian-Zan term, alongside (whence 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬), indicates the presence of an important ethnic division as early as the Proto-Georgian-Zan period.

Noun

 * 1)  Georgian