Abstract
On the Word Karanlık (Darkness)
In Turkic the etymology of many words has not been explained. Moreover it has not been possible to show the morphology of the words whose etymology is easily discernible. A typical example for such words in Turkish is karanlık. Semantically this word was derived from kara ?black?. The affix ?lık is the suffix to from nouns from nouns. Although this word is easily analysed semantically and etymol-ogically, it is morphology has not been perfectly clarified yet. In this study the etymol-ogy and morphology of karanlık in Turkish has been illuminated. <
Keywords
Turkish, Etymology, Morphology, Karanlık