FROM ÖTÜKEN TO ANATOLIA: THE CULTURAL ITEMS REFLECTED UPON THE LANGUAGE IN THE KIRŞEHIR REGION Cover Image

ÖTÜKEN’DEN ANADOLU’YA: KIRŞEHİR YÖRESİNDE DİLE YANSIYAN KÜLTÜR ÖGELERİ
FROM ÖTÜKEN TO ANATOLIA: THE CULTURAL ITEMS REFLECTED UPON THE LANGUAGE IN THE KIRŞEHIR REGION

Author(s): Mahmut Sarıkaya
Subject(s): Cultural history, Historical Linguistics, Turkic languages
Published by: Karadeniz Araştırmaları Merkezi
Keywords: Kırşehir; Proverbs; Curses and Prayers;

Summary/Abstract: Kırşehir is one of the important crossroads and passageways in Anatolia; In this respect, it has become one of the centers where different elements of Turkish culture meet, melt and distill. In this geography, great events ranging from the Seljuks to the Ilkhanians, from the principalities to the establishment of the Ottoman Empire, from great revolts to constructivism and state establishment have been experienced. Şeyh Edebalı, who made and kneaded the will that founded the Ottoman State, is a person of these places. The pioneers of the Babâî revolts emerged from these lands, Âşık Paşa who was the son of those pioneers, participated in the foundation of the Ottoman, and historian Aşıkpaşaoğlu was nearby Yavuz in Chaldoran, Marjedabik and Rhidâniye. Within this paper, it will be put with examples that the state of separation in Old Turkish, which is a language feature reflected in this historical, geographik and social structure, is met with the presence of the suffix. Besides; the words such as samağır/samağar; tuhran/tufran <turfan, turfanda; üzlük; ḳöpen; bala; ḳöpen; the toponyms like Aflak/Eflak Baba; Köme, Obruk, Kepez; the proverbs such as “Gözele ḳöpen yaraşır, çirkin balayı neylesin?”, “İt ġuyruğunu ġalıba ġoymaynan düzelmez”; the curses like “babalarda gidesice”; and some prayer words such as “döşüŋden ağ kıllar bitsin” will be examined.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 74
  • Page Range: 429-443
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Turkish