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Suffixes that breaches the major wovel harmony.
1.       tunci
7149 posts
 11 Jun 2013 Tue 10:21 pm

 

Suffixes that breaches the major wovel  harmony.

 

 

Some suffixes breaches the major wawol  harmony in Turkish , they are  ;

 

 

-ken        : bakarken     --->  while [when]  looking

-ki          : aamki        --->  the one that is [was] in the evening

-leyin     : sabahleyin    ---->   in  the  morning

-gil         : dayımgil       ---> my uncle [mother´s brother] and his family

-imtırak  : yeşilimtırak  ---> greenish 

-daş         :meslektaş      ---->  colleague

-yor         :bekliyor         ----> he/she  is  waiting

 

 

note :  " major  vowel harmony  is" ;

If  the first  vowel of  the very first syllable  of  a word starts with a back vowel [a,ı, o , u ] , the rest take  the back vowel.

  If   the  first  vowel of the very first syllable of a word starts with  a front vowel [e,i, ö, ü ] , the rest  take the front vowel.

Bir kelimenin birinci hecesinde kalın bir ünlü (a, ı, o, u) bulunuyorsa diğer hecelerdeki ünlüler de kalın, ince bir ünlü (e, i, ö, ü bulunuyorsa diğer hecelerdeki ünlüler de ince olur:

 

Examples ;


 adım

 aya

boyunduruk

 burun

dalga 

dudak

 kırlangıç

beşik

bilezik

 gelincik

gözlük

üzengi

 vergi

yüzük 

 

* Foreign origin words  does not  obey  this rule.

Kilogram  

Mikrodalga

 

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2.       tunci
7149 posts
 13 Jun 2013 Thu 09:35 pm

 

Despite the  unrounded - rounded  harmony  in Turkish words ,  there is some Turkish words that don´t follow this harmony . Those ones are the ones which have  lip consonants in them  [ b, p, m, v ]

 

  In those Turkish  words that have  b, p, m , v ,   the old vowel "u" was protected  after  "a".

 

 Tavuk  

 

 Yağmu

 

 Tapu 

 

 kavu

 

 savu

 

 avuç 

 

 çamur

 

 yavr

 

etc..

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3.       Kelowna
375 posts
 13 Jun 2013 Thu 09:55 pm

nice job explaining this

4.       tunci
7149 posts
 14 Jun 2013 Fri 03:02 pm

 

Vowel harmony is not always  expected in  compound nouns or verbs .[ when more than one nouns or verbs  forms in as one noun or verb ]

 

 

 Some  examples ;

 

 

ilk  = first

 

okul = school

 

İlk +  okul  ---->  İlkokul  -------->   Elementary school.

 

=======================

 

açık  -  open

 

göz  -  eye

 

ık   +  göz  ----->  açıkgöz  ---->  Shrewd [person], canny 

 

=======================

 

yap =  do 

 

vermek =  to  give 

 

yap  +   ı +   vermek  ---->  yapıvermek  ------>  to do [make]  something easily, quickly, hastily, rapidly  [verb of haste]

 

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