ABSTRACT

The basic words in the lexicon of languages occupy an essential place. These words, due to the characteristics they have are firstly to be categorised when studying the language interrelations, language differences, language teaching, language history and grammar. The numeral names, animal names, names of body parts, in some other words, data coming from the science of lexicology are accepted as basic names in the lexicon of languages by linguists. In this article on one hand we aim to identify the characteristics and criteria of basic words and on the other hand to examine synchronically and diachronically the used main and sub basic names of body parts in Turkish lexicon.