HISTORICAL AND SEMANTIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEXEME "KECHA" IN THE UZBEK LANGUAGE
Keywords:
Mahmud Kashgari, Divanu Lugatit Turk, night, semantic change, historical semantics, meaning transfer, Turkic languages, time lexeme.Abstract
This article analyzes the historical semantic changes of the lexeme “kecha” in the Uzbek language, which refers to time. The article explains the meanings of this word in ancient Turkic sources and its modern meanings through a comparative approach. In particular, based on the information in Mahmud Kashgari’s “Devonu lug‘otit turk”, the early meanings of this lexeme are determined and their meaning transfer processes in later periods are highlighted. The results show that the word “kecha” was initially used in the meaning of “night, night-related time”, and later adopted the meaning of “past day”. The article analyzes the semantic factors of these changes and substantiates them using comparative examples in Turkic languages and historical and lexical sources.
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