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The name is apparently linked to ფაზისი (pazisi), but the etymology is a matter of a scholarly dispute. "Phasis" (Φᾶσις (Fᾶsis)) is first recorded in Hesiod's Theogony (c. 700 BC) as a name of the river, not a town. Since Erich Diehl, 1938, first suggested a non-Hellenic origin of the name and asserted that Phasis might have been a derivative of a local hydronym, several explanations have been proposed, linking the name to the Proto-Georgian-Zan *poti, Svan *pasid (*pasid), and even to a Semitic word, meaning "a gold river".

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔtʰi/

ფოთი • (poti)

1. Poti

• Otar Lordkipanidze (2000), Phasis: The River and City in Colchis. Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN.