Georgianize

Georgianize

English

Etymology

Georgian +‎ -ize

Verb

Georgianize (third-person singular simple present Georgianizes, present participle Georgianizing, simple past and past participle Georgianized)

1. to make Georgian.
   • 1995, Anna Kreikemeyer, Andreĭ Vladimirovich Zagorskiĭ, Crisis management in the CIS: whither Russia?

     so that they resent recent Kartvelian encroachment on their land, which has been accompanied by repeated attempts to Georgianize them.

   • 2003, John Wright, Richard Schofield, Suzanne Goldenberg, Transcaucasian Boundaries, Routledge (→ISBN), page 196:

     They resent Kartvelian encroachment on their land, which has been accompanied by repeated attempts to Georgianize or Kartvelianize their people.

   • 2012, Anatoly M. Khazanov, Andre Wink, Nomads in the Sedentary World, Routledge (→ISBN), page 52:

     The Georgians made even greater efforts to Georgianize and Christianize the nomads who had taken service with the Crown.