Ahmet Ardıç wrote:Moreover, just like in modern Turkish, this word appears in VMS as both an independent word and as a word suffix. So, in this point, the overlap between Turkish and VMS is very clear. All I can tell you is that the word is not used in the same meaning, or in the same function with all of these repetitions in VMS.
I notice that you emphasized this three times.
This overlap happens in many languages. There are numerous suffixes that can also stand as words. Depending on the language, patterns like -ham -burg -mont -ten -man -ton function both as suffixes and as individual words, so this characteristic is not specific to Turkish.