Abstract:

-Ak has been a widely used suffix in Turkish since the past. This suffix was in the form of ġaḳ / -gek in the Old Turkic, then changed to the form of -ak/-ek as a result of the falling of /ġ/ and /g/ sounds, in Western Turkic. -Ak suffix can attach to the verbal root and verbal stems, derives place names in different meanings such as pointing of a place, the meaning of location, the meaning of the place where the work is done. Besides the place names; this suffix can be used for deriving names in different meanings such as equipment names, names of many terms, adjectives in various meanings, concrete and abstract names. In addition to the later derived words such as uçak, örek, ölçek, çıkak; it is also seen in the words such as bıçġaḳ “bıçak”, orġaḳ “orak”, yumġaḳ “yumak” which have been used since the Old Turkic and its usage area is quite wide. Because of the root centered approaches to the elements that make up the meaning of the word, the meaning that the suffix adds to the word has not been adequately studied. Turkish grammar is mostly focused on sentence view and structure. For this reason, it causes a superficial consideration of the meanings that -Ak suffix adds to the root or stem of the verb. However, it is not mentioned that this suffix adds different meanings to the word. From this point of view; this study examines the -Ak suffix which is located as the suffix that derives the noun from the verb. The data used in the study based on the nouns included by the Turkish dictionary of Tdk. It is aimed to reveal the meaning relations between the functions of –Ak suffix and the semantic expressions of it that added to the word.

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