A look at Turkısh onomastics and anthroponymic names in the scientific work of Abulfaz Guliyev

Abstract

The article discusses the monograph “Personal Names in Old Turkic” in the work of Abulfaz Guliyev. The work extensively studies the anthroponymic-personal names of the Ötüken and Turhan Turks in 3 chapters and 12 subheadings. In the chapters of the book, the personal names of the old Ötüken Turks are analyzed in the heading of khanate, metonyms and theonyms, and the names of the old Turkic gods are analyzed in a comparative manner. The place of the names of gods in beliefs in personal names in theonymsacred names is investigated with reference to source and mythical information.
In the work, ancient Turfan Uyghur personal-female and legal names are also investigated comparatively with ancient Turkic personal names with new scientific facts. During the research, explanations of theonymic names in oronymic and hydronymic names located in the geographical area of Nakhchivan are also given. During linguistic analyses, it is proven with scientific evidence that oronyms and hydronymics bearing these mythological names are also proto-Turkic tribal names and that they existed in the 6th-1st millennia BC. In the research, the initial formation forms of names are explained with reference to the ancient Turkic epic of Dede Gorgud. Mainly, the name of the god An and the place of the myth of the Wolf in the initial naming are
extensively investigated. In the Turkic khaganate, names such as Ashina were added to the names of Khagan from the Ashina surname, and names such as Il Kagan are also extensively analyzed. In the research work, new scientific results are proven with facts.
Keywords: personal names-anthroponyms, Ötüken, Turhan, religious names, Alp-Yigid