'Taste' and its conceptual extensions: the example of Croatian root kus/kuš and Turkish root tat

domain of experience (e.g. hayat tadını görmek “to taste/experience life”, (lit. “to see the taste of life”). Turkish verbs do not extend their meanings to all abstract domains Croatian prefixed verbs do: they do not share meanings with Croatian verbs pokušati “to try; to attempt”, okušati se, okušati se u, okušati se kao “to try (out) (as)”, nor can they be related to the abstract domain of temptation (as with Croatian iskušavati ”to tempt; to test”, iskušenje ‘temptation’, kušnja ‘temptation; crucible”). Similarly, Turkish root tat cannot relate to the domain of aesthetic judgement (Croatian ukus), but when morphologically extended by suffixes –li “with” or –siz “without”, it extends to some domains Croatian root does not: tatlı (lit. „with taste“) does not mean “tasty”, but “sweet”. Accordingly, tatlı relates to a variety of pleasant experiences (feelings, climate, activities), while tatsız means “untasty”, but also “unpleasant”, “irritating”, “disturbing”, “annoying” etc. In addition, Croatian root kus/kuš cannot be used to express “enjoying” as Turkish root tat can (e.g. tatilin tadını çıkarmak “to enjoy holidays”, lit. “to extract the taste of holidays”). As far as contextual realizations are concerned, one of the most prominent differences between Croatian and Turkish is that Turkish root tat, besides verbs for visual perception, combines with verbs expressing motion (Paris’in tadına varmak “to experience the spirit/charm of Paris“, lit. “to come to the taste of Paris”), taking (tadını almak “to taste”, “to experience”, “to enjoy”, lit. “to take the taste of”; tadını çıkarmak “to enjoy”, lit. “to extract the taste of”), and cognitive activity (tadını bilmek “to experience”, lit. “to learn/to know the taste of”; tadını tanımak “to experience”, lit. “to get to know the taste of”), which is not the case in Croatian. Combining nouns and verbs derived from the same root is also characteristic for Turkish but not for Croatian (tadını tatmak “to taste the taste of”). Thus, it could be claimed that Croatian verbs with extended abstract meanings are mostly realized in constructions such as [pref – Vkus/kuš – prep] as okušati se u “to try out”,