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

[Pendergast, John J CIV USA USMA]

The difference between Y-Z-K and Y-Z-D is true enough, but it appears that Y-Z-T is a variant of Y-Z-D, and of course "ch" is the palatalization of "t," which is how I hear news reporters saying the name, i.e. "Yaziti."  As for who might have influenced whom, no idea.

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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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad>  Caliph <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliph>  Yazid I <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazid_I>  (Yazid bin Muawiyah), revered as Sultan Ezi.[46] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidi#cite_note-iryez-46>  The Yazidis' cultural practices are observed in Kurdish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_language> , and almost all speak Kurmanjî <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurmanj%C3%AE>  with the exception of the villages of Bashiqa and Bahazane, where Arabic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic>  is spoken. Kurmanjî <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurmanj%C3%AE>  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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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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