Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 45.1.3

45.1.3

Maze Maz: an intricate winding path through woods and mountains. Hence a large province of Persia, on the Caspian Sea, being beyond a lofty chain of mountains, covered with thick woods, and having been itself a forest cleared for cultivation (as appears by the enormous serpents and that infinity of lions and other wild beasts found anciently, and even now, there), this province of course was called the country within the Mazes, or beyond the Mazes a name which it bears to this day Maz-anderan. These few words are such as have occurred to me at so short a warning; but I shall take care occasionally to enlarge the list; and when it is recollected that the Saca-sons, or Sac-sons or Saxons were no more than a Colony of Saceas, who inhabited the northern provinces of Persia, upon the Amoo; that all the Gothick nations emigrated unquestionably from the northern parts of Asia into Europe, with Odin, Woden, or Goden at their head; and that a Colony of Kermanis, (Is it from that word that comes that of Germans and Caramanians?) dissatisfied with both their country and government, emigrated from Persia into the northern parts of Europe; when we shall join all these hints together, we shall not be much surprised to find such a number of words to be both Persian and English. I have once assembled 97 of them. Shame Sherm and Sharm. No Na. Qhog; and if this word be often pronounced QliSg, it is because the Persians use the vaw for four sounds.