Seyfullah Türkmen

Keywords: Etymology, tök, tökezlemek

Abstract

This paper about the origin of the word "tökezlemek (to stumble)". The phonolojicaland semantical phases which this word passed in time is tried to explain. Concerningthis topic, the names of organs which have two parts such as "diz (knee), göz(eye), and omuz (shoulder) are used.