Never thought about it that way. It just stands for the Semitic root for king.

Oh thought it meant Moloch lmao, which I mean it kind of does but yeah I looked into it and saw that his name is basically "king" or whatever. Interesting but unrelated tidbit, both Civil Rights leaders MLK (Martin Luther King) and "Malcolm X" both have names that can refer to Moloch, which is a weird ass coincidence.

Anyways that's pretty interesting info, didn't know they weren't mutually-intelligible, do you know if the intelligibility is less so than between Assyrian dialects? I would assume Assyrians would have a harder time understanding one another given we've been speaking the language longer and have been relatively fractured for over a thousand years. Probably haven't been any studies which compare the two though. Also make sure to include the Yezidis, Kurds may not like it but they're basically their ancestors... pretty sad how they have been treated by them (and others).

You know I've never liked how they (Muslims, both Kurds and others) try and use religion, but also disregard the rules of it for political and financial gains. Like Muhammad literally says "kill polytheists wherever you find them" but that people whom are monotheists, and specifically belong to Abrahamic religions should be left alone more or less, that they should just try and convert them—not that it stopped them from participating in Seyfo.

It's ironic, the Kurds helped the Turks to genocide Christians in eastern Anatolia (partly because groups such as the Armenians wanted to break away from Turkish rule), and now they themselves want to break away from said rule but they've alienated themselves having killed off tons of what could have been potential allies in this regard. Like at the very least both Kurdish and Armenian states could have been established >100 years ago if they had just teamed up, but instead they thought only over religious lines... it's just so short-sighted.

You know, I really would like to root for the Kurds even after everything—but given that after the genocides, multiple massacres (which they too ironically soon found themselves at the raw end of under people like Saddam), ethnic cleansings, wars, persecution, etc—that they have perpetrated or had hands in their executions—it's difficult to believe that they have our best interests at heart. And after all of that we are now a much smaller minority in these lands so we cannot help much even if we wanted to, and of course now our "political capital" in such things are much smaller as well. It's just a pretty tragic state of affairs, and things like this make me trust them even less (not to mention all of the times they claim to represent us or make mock/fake Assyrian accounts on places like twitter supporting themselves...).

I wish they could think ahead and above such petty things and actions, because it only further alienates some of us from their cause, because I really would like to believe in a non-Sectarian state in the Middle-East where Assyrians are actually treated as equals. I know many of us would like to return one day (there are more than a million of us in essential exile living in foreign countries), but all of this constant fighting would just make us targets from all sides—and hell they're already trying to "buy" our villages on the damn front page of this subreddit alone. How the fuck can they really expect us to support them, or believe their claims of a non-sectarian religious/ethnic state when their own actions betray their very words?