Structural properties and semantics of phraseological units with 'to be satisfied' are explored in Turkic and Mongolian languages, suggesting shared origins.
The article aims to perform a comparative description and identification of the structural and semantic properties of the phraseological nest with the verbal component хан'to be satisfied' in the Turkic and Mongolian languages. Structuralsemantic analysis was used to divide the phraseological units into two semantic types: 1) phraseological units expressing person’s physiological needs; 2) phraseological units expressing the mental experiences of a subject. It was found that in the semantics of the phraseological units of the second type, both positive (to receive satisfaction / pleasure) and negative (to gloat) aspects dominate. Also, they are superimposed on expressiveevaluative coloring, therefore they are characterized by the logical impossibility of using in the first person. Presumably, the phraseological unit маха хан / мага хан/ мака кан/ бах ханахcommon in the Siberian Turkic and Mongolian languages is of Mongolian origin. In the Oguz and Kypchak languages of the Turkic language family, the verb хан/ кан/ ханаха/ han/ qan'to be satisfied' functions as an independent verb and has wide semantic compatibility and word building possibilities. However, no phraseological correspondences were found in these languages.
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