bilig-16/ Winter  2001

A RESEARCH on TURKISH WORLDS in 
OLD RUSSIAN HISTORICAL WORK -" THE STORY OF PAST YEARS"

Çiçek EFENDİYEVA
Gazi  University,
Faculty of Science and Arts

“The Story of Past Years” is a document about the formation of Russian State and Russian nation, and its general problems. The basic aim of father of Kiyev-Peçor church, Nestor, who wrote this story, is to show the definite history of Russian state, and to see Russian state among other states of the world.

In the introduction of the article, the aims of the different rulers in writing “The Story of Past Years” are mentioned. Besides, two copies of the monument are mentioned in the introduction.

The groups of old Turkish vocabulary in “Story of Past Years” are also given depending on meaning and subject in the article. There are five groups of words in the story. Each of them is subdivided into suitable subgroups. This sub-division demonstrates the semantical function of old Turkish words in old Russian lexico-system and the depth of meaning of the words that are transferred to old Russian. The list of the words and their usage of frequency are given in each subgroup. The table of the words usage of frequency is writen depending on the functional status of old Turkish words. This table explains the effect of old Turkish nations on old Russian people and which areas of life were effected. It also determines the deep mutual influence between these two nations. Besides, it makes possible to analyse this problem of influence not only from the point of view of linguistics, but also from the point of view of history and ethnography.

Key Words : Old Russian, Loan Words, Old Turkish Words, Kipchak, Semantic, Term Groups