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The names of the week in Turkish languages

ABSTRACT  

The article discusses the problems of phonosemantics and that the days of the week historically are called in the same way in most world languages. The names of the days of the week, which reflect the lexicon of time, are important in terms of studying the history, past and ethnography of the Azerbaijani people. The names given to the days of the week by the people in the Turkish languages were suppressed and disappeared under the influence of the Persian Arabic language and religion, and the Arabic-Persian words prevailed in the Azerbaijani language. The investigation of the kinship of a number of languages of the world, the existence of a single language family, the historical naming of the days of the week in these languages with the same names is one of the tasks of not only ethnographers and historians, but also linguists. In dialects, the ancient names of the days of the week are preserved in different meanings. In Turkish languages, the names of the days of the week are used with different names and are named according to the economic style of the people. 

KEYWORDS  

the name of the week, etymology, borrowing, the name of the planet, phonosemantics