Ilia Alkhazishvili's Work „Pharmaceutical Terms in Georgian“

Abstract

In the present paper, the illustrative material of the Georgian equivalents of the Russian-Latin terms will be presented according to the letters published by Ilia Alkhazishvili in the section of the newspaper "Iveria" entitled "Pharmaceutical terms in the Georgian language".

Georgian educator, lexicographer, pharmacist, folklorist and ethnographer Ilia Alkhazishvili (1853-1921) is little known to the general public. He belongs to the number of figures who made a significant contribution to the development of Georgian science, culture and education.

In the second half of the 19th century and the 1910s, when scientific literature was being established in Georgia in the form of original and translated books, the issue of creating Georgian scientific terminology arose seriously. Ilia Alkhazishvili took great interest in this terminological work from the beginning and did not stop his activities for preserving the purity of the Georgian language and enriching it with scientific terms until the end of his life. "Without any doubt, if we want and try to be included among the cultured people, _ I. Alkhazishvili wrote, - we should work for the revival and development of Georgian scientific literature. In fact, our national self-respect obliges us to fill this gap ... but the progress in this direction is greatly hindered by the lack of scientific terms in the Georgian language”.

Along with scientific papers of a different nature, Ilia Alkhazi-shvili paid special attention to working on establishing Georgian phar-maceutical terminology. Unfortunately, he did not manage to publish the results of his intensive work in the field of terminology in his lifetime. "Pharmaceutical terms i.e. Georgian-Russian-Latin names of drugs", which contains 2178 terms, is such work.