An Archaic Verb in Old Turkic: Arı-

Abstract

This paper examines various meanings of the verb arı-, in Turkic Dialects from old Turkic period to modern Turkic Languages The verb underwent semantic changes much before the Old Turkic period and it entered into partnership with Mongolian. We also tried to determine the approxirnate form in pre-Altaic period. For this purpose, we used sernantic and phonetic data and looked at historical and conternporary Turkic dialects.