Analysis of Semantics of Lexeme hava in Turkish

been borrowed from Persian. The source of the figurative meaning of hava ‘appearance, be-havior, style’ is most likely the French language, which in the 19 th century was widespread among the intellectuals in the Ottoman Empire. The meaning of hava ‘void, empty’ is involved in a number of stable expressions and is not represented in either Arabic or Persian. Its source may have been naive ideas about the world structure, namely the part of it located between yer (‘earth’) and gök (‘sky’), in modern Western languages called prostranstvo , Raum, space etc., which have no direct equivalent in modern Turkish. “Materiality” as a characteristic feature of “naive space” in this case is expressed in the presence of a number of features available for sensory perception-the degree of illumination, temperature, clouds, pressure. This factor brings hava closer to the ancient kün in the above meaning.