THE SUFFIX +DAş IN THE KIPCHAK TURKISH TEXTS WITH ARMENIAN LETTERS

Between the 1521-1699, in the northern part of the Black Sea, the texts about religion, history, law, literature, language, chemistry; written in Kipchak Turkish by using Armenian letters have an important place in Turkish language and literature. In these texts; Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Armenian words are very few and the basic vocabulary and morphology of the texts are Kipchak. The texts, which consist of approximately thirty thousand pages, contain many structures in need of morphological, phonetic and semantic analysis. In this study, it is aimed to determine the names derived from the suffix +DAş in the meaning of “togetherness, partnership, comradeship” found in the Armenian Kipchak Turkish texts and to reveal the semantic features of these names. A total of sixty names derived from +DAş which of forty-two Turkish, eleven Arabic, five Persian, one Greek and one Armenian nouns were identified. It is also aimed to reveal the semantic properties of these derivatives. In order to show that the names derived from +DAş in the Kipchak Turkish by using Armenian letters have a richer appearance they were compared to the texts of the other periods of Turkish literature. In this study, document analysis model was used and contextual analysis was performed. Thus, diachronic and synchronic views of the derivatives of the + DAş suffix were presented.