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Abstract: Conceptual metaphors play an important role in the emergence of abstract conceptual areas that languages have. Conceptual metaphors, which basically mean understanding/expressing an abstract concept through a more concrete concept in the external world, can explain the meaning diversity of the words in the vocabulary of languages. In this respect, the semantic development of words can be revealed through a mapping following the conceptual metaphor steps. This mapping method can show the semantic developments of the word from historical written languages to modern written languages. Thus, all the stages that words go through can be explained over the fields related to each other. While this method has been used in other fields of science until recent times, it has attracted attention as an explanatory and descriptive method that has been used in the field of metaphor recently. In this study, the form ‘agır’ in the texts written in Köktürk, Manichaean, Buddhist and Islamic environments will be examined in terms of grammaticalisation, conceptual metaphorical transitions within the borders of Old Turkic will be discussed and a conceptual map model will be developed for this form based on the concepts that the form has. According to these texts, other enlarged forms of the form will be evaluated by emphasizing the relationship between the new fields that the form has gained with each other. Thus, the development and changes of the word ‘agır’ in Turkic vocabulary will be tried to analysed.

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