Editing Iazyges (section)

===Etymology===
The Iazyges' name was [[Latinisation of names|Latinized]] as ''{{lang|la|Iazyges Metanastae}}'' ({{lang|grc|Ἰάζυγες Μετανάσται}}) or ''{{lang|la|Jazyges}}'',{{sfn|Smith|1873|p=7}} or sometimes as ''{{lang|la|Iaxamatae}}''.{{sfn|Todd|2002|p=60}} Their name was also occasionally spelled as ''Iazuges''.{{sfn|Korkkanen|1975|p=66}} Several corruptions of their name, such as ''{{lang|la|Jazamatae}}'',{{sfn|Cook|Adcock|1965|p=93}} ''{{lang|la|Iasidae}}'',{{sfn|Bolecek|1973|p=149}} ''{{lang|la|Latiges}}'', and ''{{lang|la|Cizyges}}'', existed.{{sfn|Goodyear|2004|p=700}} Other modern English forms of their name are ''{{lang|en|Iazyigs}}'', ''{{lang|en|Iazygians}}'', ''{{lang|en|Iasians}}'', and ''{{lang|en|Yazigs}}''.{{sfn|Waldman|Mason|2006|p=879}} The root of the name may be [[Proto-Iranian language|Proto-Iranian]] ''*yaz-'', "to sacrifice", perhaps indicating a caste or tribe specializing in religious sacrifices.{{sfn|Lebedynsky|2014|pp=188 & 251}}
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According to [[wikisource:Laurent, Peter Edmund (DNB00)|Peter Edmund Laurent]], a 19th-century French classical scholar, the Iazyges Metanastæ, a warlike Sarmatian race, which had migrated during the reign of the Roman Emperor [[Claudius]], and therefore received the name of "Metanastæ", resided in the mountains west of the Theiss ([[Tisza]]) and east of the Gran ([[Hron]]) and [[Danube]].{{sfn|Laurent|1830|p=157}} The Greek Metanastæ ({{langx|el|Μετανάσται}}) means "migrants". The united Scythians and Sarmatæ called themselves Iazyges, which Laurent connected with [[Old Church Slavonic]] {{lang|cu|[[wikt:ѩзꙑкъ|ѩзꙑкъ]]}} (''językŭ'', "tongue, language, people").{{sfn|Laurent|1830|p=311}}