DOI: https://doi.org/10.36719/2706-6185/53/120-124
Ilhama Babanli
Baku State University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5274-0356
ilhamababanlı@bsu.edu.az
Antonymous Verbs in the
Kitabi-Dede Gorgud Language
Abstract
We could not find the antonyms of the following verbs used in the epic Kitabi-Dede Korkut in the explanatory dictionary: there is to rise, but not to sit; there is to bend, but not to strengthen; there is to begin, but not to end; there is to grow / to become greater, but not to shrink; there is to empty, but not to fill.
Thus, based on the analysis of the antonymous verbs used in the Kitabi-Dede Korkut epic, we identified four groups: both sides commonly used today; one side commonly used and the other archaic; antonyms of verbs not used in the epic; verbs that form antonyms only within the text or context.
In general, the analysis of the vocabulary of the Kitabi-Dede Gorgud epic shows that archaic verbs are used here, as well as homonyms, synonyms, and antonymous verbs found in the Azerbaijani language.
These lexical units retained their functionality to a certain extent in the subsequent development of the vocabulary.
Keywords: antonymous verbs, Kitabi-Dede Gorgud, synonyms, homonyms, lexical units