=?utf-8?Q?=D0=AF=D0=B7=D1=8B=D1=87=D0=B5=D1=81=D1=82=D0=B2=D0=BE_?=- Yazidi?

Fri Aug 22 17:39:28 UTC 2014

I'm not a linguist, but it would seem that iazychestvo comes transparently from Slavonic iazyki -- tribes. 

On Yazidi, this from Wikipedia: 

The Yazidis' own name for themselves is Êzidî or Êzîdî or, in some areas, Dasinî (the latter, strictly speaking, is a tribal name). Some scholars have derived the name Yazidi from Old Iranian yazata (divine being), and Yazidis themselves believe that their name is derived from the word Yezdan or Êzid "God", denying the widespread idea that it is a derivation from Umayyad Caliph Yazid I (Yazid bin Muawiyah), revered as Sultan Ezi. [ 46 ] The Yazidis' cultural practices are observed in Kurdish , and almost all speak Kurmanjî with the exception of the villages of Bashiqa and Bahazane, where Arabic is spoken. Kurmanjî is the language of almost all the orally transmitted religious traditions of the Yazidis. 

On top of the vast cultural/geographical divide, Y-Z-K isn't the same as Y-Z-D. And which way do you imagine the influence proceeding from Slavic to Kurdish or the other way around? 

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From: "John J CIV USA USMA Pendergast" <John.Pendergast at USMA.EDU> 
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:52:31 PM 
Subject: [SEELANGS] Язычество - Yazidi? 

Do any of the linguists out there want to take a crack at confirming or denying a connection between the common name for the oppressed tribe of polytheists so much in the news recently – the Yazidi – and the Russian word for polytheism or paganism « язычество » (“iazychestvo”)? 

John Pendergast 
Assistant Professor of Russian 
Department of Foreign Languages 
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