Turkish Accents Thread

[Yaglakar]

Why "man/mən" for "myself/me" doesn't exist in Turkey?

Or how come it's "ben"?

Always wondered..

Ben or rather more precisely Bän is the original form of the Old-Turkic personal pronoun. Around the time of Tonyukuk it switches to Män. ä sound here is the Azerbaijani ə not the German ä

Old-Turkic personal pronouns:

[Yaglakar]

How many functions does suffix "mish" have in Turkish? varmish kishi - the person who went
Kishi varmish - the person went, kishi vardi - the person went. What is the difference between varmish and vardi in this case?

[Bender1999]

How many functions does suffix "mish" have in Turkish? varmish kishi - the person who went
Kishi varmish - the person went, kishi vardi - the person went. What is the difference between varmish and vardi in this case?

It depends on the case, for instance i use both when i want to say the person went/came. But varmış can mean „...it seems that the person went/came“ too.

[itilvolga]

How many functions does suffix "mish" have in Turkish? varmish kishi - the person who went
Kishi varmish - the person went, kishi vardi - the person went. What is the difference between varmish and vardi in this case?

Mış/miş/muş/müş is “heard”, dı/di/du/dü is “seen”. If you heard that the person went there, you say “varmış” but if you saw, you say “vardı”. We differ them as “duyulan geçmiş zaman” and “görülen geçmiş zaman”.

[Bender1999]

emmi=amca(paternal uncle)
çitlek=ay çiçeğin çekirdeği
denilmek=staying around someone
zaar=her halde
yel=rüzgar
böğründe=yanında
bahale(baxale)=baksana
nörüyon=ne yapıyon/nasılsın
nahas=nasıl olduda

[itilvolga]

Some words in Little Maeander (Küçük Menderes) dialect from Southern Izmir (Ödemiş, Beydağ and Kiraz):
Dingoz: yarım akıllı (half wit)
Fıraz: horoz (rooster)
Kompir: patates (potato)
Manca: pancar (beet)
Somya: karyola (bedstead)
Yalabık: güzel, yakışıklı (handsome)
Girey: pazar (bazaar)

[Faklon]

[RatCat]

Some words that i heard from my maternal side (Eastern blak sea dialect):

aspuli: deniz kabuğu
afkur: havlamak
anaga: anneanne, babaanne
farfara: kelebek
fışki: dışkı
gapcuk: kabukçuk, fındığın dışındaki yeşil kabuk
got/kot: büyük
haçan: madem
kermek: vurmak, çarpmak
kukula: şapka,bere
mezere: mezra, yaylaya çıkarken konaklamak için yapılmış yer

[Karadon]

TDK Türkiyedeki Ağızlar için Halk Ağızından Derleme Sözlüğünü yayımlamıştı

[Bender1999]

I am sitting at the bus station, an see cockroaches. We say „kara fatma“ to them.