Aydin, Timur2024-09-112024-09-1120182458-9071https://hdl.handle.net/11363/8246G. Lakoff's and M. Johnson's theory of metaphor demonstrates that metaphor is not an only figure of speech, also a psychological and cognitive mechanism has an impact on perception and behavior. In the first chapter of this study; Lakoff's and Johnson's theory of metaphor and Turkish equivalents of their metaphor examples which they gave for English are mentioned. In the second chapter of this study; burden metaphor is diachronically traced in compound verbs which are established with tusur-, kir-, kotur-, yud-, tart-, cek- in the Old and Middle Turkish and compound verbs which are established with cek-, tart- are compared with Persian equivalents.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessMetaphorGeorge LakoffMark Johnsoncompound verbArticle44163181N/AWOS:000447312400010N/A