Verbs of seş- and çöz- from Old Turkic to Present

Abstract

In this article, it has been tried to determine the usage area of the seşverb and its derivatives and çöz- verb in written texts from the historical Turkic languages to the present day. For this purpose; The use of relatedverbs in Old Turkic, Middle Turkic, New Turkic and Modern Turkiclanguages were examined. In this study, the usage areas of the verbs şeş-,şiş-, çeş-, çiş-, çiç-, yeş-, yiş-, yiz-, eş- as a derivative of the verb seş- areemphasized one by one. By keeping the time interval of the texts wide, itwas investigated when these verb derivatives joined the written languageof Turkic and how they changed historically. Apart from the derivativesof this seş- verb, the situation of the çöz- verb from the Old Turkic to thepresent has been examined in detail. The main goal of the article is; itis to distinguish whether the verbs seş- and çöz- are two different verbsthat are used simultaneously giving the same meaning, or whether theverb of çöz- is a verb that changes with some sound events from the verbseş-. Accordingly, it was seen that these two verbs (verbs seş- and çöz-)are different verbs that are similar in terms of their functions, since theinitial change of s->ç- could not be detected. However, in Old Turkic it isknown that there are other verbs that mean "to solve, to separate": such asthe verb adır-. However, the focus of this study is to examine the usagearea of "to solve" meaning verbs that are derivatives of each other andthat establish a relationship with each other on a phonetic and semanticlevel. In addition, the sound changes of other verb forms derived from theseş- verb determined as the main verb were revealed. As a result, verbsand their derivatives, which mean "to solve" in Turkic written languagesand have understandable phonetic differences, and the variety of verbs inTurkic are exemplified.