Word pearls of “Kitabi-Dade Gorgud”

Abstract

"Kitabi-Dade Gorgud", which our nation celebrated its 1300th anniversary with great solem- nity, is one of our most valuable monuments that question our distant past. Until now, hundreds of works have been written and are still being written in various styles about this magnificent monu- ment, which is always the focus of scientists. The conducted scientific researches show that "Kitabi- Dada Gorgud" contains the history, ethnography, past way of life, customs, etc. of our people. has a wealth of facts to highlight the issues. At the same time, this monument also includes many words that reflect the ancient lexical layers of our language, the discovery of their characteristic features observed in separate grammatical categories, their wide disclosure, tracing the historical develop- ment path of our language and clarifying some issues that have not been resolved in our linguistics. is quite important.

This article talks about a few words, which are not used in our modern literary language, but are observed only in "Kitabi-Dade Gorgud" and reflect the ancient lexical layers of our language and their structure. Some of these words can be found in ancient dictionaries, works of our classics, related Turkic languages, as well as our dialects and dialects.