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Türkçede Ortak Kökler
Common Roots in Turkish

Author(s): Sertan Alġbekġroğlu
Subject(s): Phonetics / Phonology, Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Philology, Turkic languages
Published by: Kilis 7 Aralık Üniversity
Keywords: Old Turkic; Turkish; Roots; Common roots; Nouns; Verbs;

Summary/Abstract: Inthe Turkish language words, in terms of their roots, can be divided into two groups. Verb roots and noun roots. Thes eroots have been identified as noun roots and verb roots from the moment they emerged. As a result, it has been concluded, that no root in theTurkish language can be used both as a name and a verb root, in short, that there is no common roots. Despite this, we can see that in Turkish there are morphological units in the form of name and verb roots like boya / boya-, aç / aç- etc, which can be explained by the phonetic phenomena that developed between Old Turkic and Western Turkic. Again, it has been stated, that such morphological units as barış / barış-, savaş / savaş- etc. Have different constructive suffixes attached to the roots of the verb. Although in a small number, there are also studies showing the existance of common roots in theTurkish language. In this article we claim that some words in Old Turkic and modern Turkish share common roots and we focus on the methods of detecting common roots.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 299-305
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Turkish