Özet:

In languages, some words gain new meanings over time, some words are derived, and some words fall out of use. Some of these words that fall from use may continue to exist within the formed word units. These words are called fossil words. In the Turkish language there are also words that continue to exist as fossil. This study examined the Arabic quantity and measurement expressions that continue to exist as fossil in Turkish. In the entrance section of the study, the first explanations were made about the term fossil structure, discussing the differences between fossil words and archaeological objects, both subjects and interest were referred to the studies in Turkey. The six words that later indicate the amount and size of the Arabic fossil were studied using the Turkish National Assembly Data. Finally, in the result section of the study, a statistical form related to these words was created and evaluated.

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Özet:

Some words in languages ​​gain new meanings over time, some words are derived and some words also fall out of use. Some of these words that have fallen out of use can live in stereotypes. Such words are called fossilezed forms. There are words that exist in Turkish as fossils too. In this study, the quantity and measure expressions of Arabic which existed as a fossil in Turkish were examined. In the introduction part of the study, Firstly explanations about the term fossil have been given,  In addetion by mentioning the differences between the fossil words and archaic elements ,  It has referred to studies on both subjects in Turkey. Later, six words indicating the Arabic fossil quantity and measure were examined by making use of Turkish National Corpus Data. Finally, in the conclusion part of the study, a statistical form has been formed and evaluated.