Somatic Idioms in Turkmen Turkic

Abstract

Idioms that reflect the keen intelligence, core, tradition, and custom of the society and organs forming the physiology of the individual, nomenclature of these organs, and becoming idioms of these perceptible nomenclatures constitute the subject of this study. The name of organs takes place among basic words in a language. They are used for identifying relationships between languages. Using the name of organs is highly common in idioms. Idioms formed with the name of organs are called somatic idioms. Idioms formed with the name of organs are found in Turkish, Kyrgyz-Turkic, Kazakh-Turkic, and Azerbaijani-Turkic. However, there is no recognized study about somatic idioms in Turkmen-Turkic. In this study, firstly, idioms and the name of organs are categorized in line with an interdisciplinary perspective. Then, the name of organs used in idioms is considered structurally and semantically. In line with anatomy and linguistics, the name of organs is categorized into six groups as follows; organs in the head, organs in the neck, organs in the torso, organs in the upper and lower limbs, and organs covering the body, then they are sub-categorized. Idioms formed with the name of organs in Turkmen-Turkic are scanned in the “Idiom Dictionary of Turkmen-Turkic and Turkish” and found by comparing findings in “Frzazeologik Dictionary of Turkmen Language.” It is aimed to conclude with the data obtained by categorizing idioms formed with the name of organs and semantic features of these idioms.

Keywords

• name of organs
• idioms
• somatic idioms
• turkmen turkic