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- 2018
About Verbs ?t- and ?t- in Old TurkicKeywords: ?t-,?t-,etymology,synonym Abstract: In Old Turkic, there are both ?t- and ?t-, which means ‘to sing, to make sounds (for animals)’. These are more prevalent in that period, but the use of ?t- has diminished over time and has left its place to the ?t-. The historical phonetics does not provide us any conclusive evidence whether there is a sound shifting at the beginning of the word like /?-/ > /?-/. For this reason, it is necessary to evaluate the two verbs separately. The existence of two verbs as a difference today in Turkic languages support our hypothesis
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