Georgian Terminology- tradition and present state

Abstract

The article presents the results of the study of Georgian Terms with Regard to their Sources and
Structural-Semantic Composition. The research revealed several noteworthy issues, which are important
from the point of view of the formulation of terminological policy in Georgia. Analysis of the sources
and structural-semantic composition of Georgian terms against the backdrop of the history of Georgian
term-forming, basing on the contrastive study of the terms created in the classical period on the one hand,
and the terms from the fields of knowledge developed relatively recently, on the other hand, showed how
necessary intervention of specialists is for the development of terminological work. The research material
was extracted from the English-Georgian Online Biology Dictionary, created in the Lexicographic Centre
at Tbilisi State University