curiosity

[colkitto]

I don't know the history of this one, but it's by no means impossible

ethnonyms can jump great distances and from language to language, and these 
processes often provide us with excellent examples of crazy semantic change 
and folk etymologies.

cf. Indians

or

Serbs and Sorbs

or

 the different connotations of kafir for Islamists and South Africans .....

etc.





> Seelangers,
>     A curious non-Slavic question. Some of you may have seen the film
> "The Kite Runner" which in part concerns a cultural group called the
> "Hazaras." The latest National Geographic has an article about them and
> points out that they were evidently descendants of Ghengis Khan who
> invaded Afghanistan in the 13th century. Is there any connection between
> them and the Khazars who ruled an area in what today is the southern
> Ukraine and northern Caucasus in the 9th and 10th century? Is this just
> a coincidental play of sounds or is it historically meaningful?
>     Thanks in advance.
>     James Bailey
>
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