Abstract:

In this study, the process of becoming homonymy due to the expansion of meaning within the historical journey of polysemy, which are actually very meaningful and based on the same origin, in the Turkish Dictionary of the Türk Dil Kurumu, was examined. Homonymy; it is defined as words whose phone and spelling are the same and their meanings are different. In polysemy words involve more than one meaning. While there is a single origin in polysemy words, there are more than one but related meanings, in homonyms, there are at least two different origins and different meanings from each other. Tagged with the general scanning model in the Turkish Dictionary, acımak, ağıl, ağız, ağmak, altıparmak, basılmak, biçim, bir bir, bitmek, boy, bozuk, çakmak, çil, çöğür, dayak, dikilmek, dikmek, dil, dokunma, dokunmak, dokunuş, el, gen, güç, günlük, öz, sağ, sormak, ters, terslemek, uçuk, uğur, uz, yaş, yaşlı, yazı, yazmak, yordurmak, yormak, yorulmak have turned into polysemy from homonymy. In the spelling of homonymys in the dictionary, to two separate lexical entry and (I) (II) roman numerals form besides homonymys is preferred. Expanded meanings of polysemys are shown with the numbers 1, 2, and 3 at the beginning of generally prioritizing the basic meaning. Based on the etymology and historical dictionaries of the determined 40 words, it has been determined that the dictionary units of the polysemy words with the same origin are decomposed through the expansion and change of meaning over time and become polysemy.

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