Abstract
TheuseofpairedwordsisespeciallycharacteristicoftheTurkiclanguages.PairedwordsarefoundinlargenumbersinancientandmedievalTurkicwrittenmonuments.IntheKazakhlanguage,pairedwords are also a common method of word formation. This method of word formation was used by Abai inlargenumbers.ManyofthesewordsinAbaiaretypicalofthepoet'slanguage,whicharenotusedinmodernliterary language. Despite the fact that some of these words are based on the words of the Kazakh literarylanguage,themeaningofthesecomponentsiscurrentlydifferent.Manypairedwordsconsistofwordsthatare not in the vocabulary ofthe Kazakh language. In the Kazakh language, among the archaisms that havebeen preserved in paired words, there are also borrowed elements. All these cases require a distinction intheoriginalmeaningandoriginofpairedwordsofAbai.Thearticlesortsthecomponentsofpairedwords,often not found in the Kazakh literary language, but characteristic of the Abai language, and explains theiroriginal meaning. The etymology of paired words characteristic of Abay will be analyzed on the basis ofdatafromtheTurkicwrittenheritageandlanguages.Amongsuchuses,thehistoryofsuchpairedwordsas«elsiz-kunsizde,don-ainalu,ake-uke,salem-saukat,teli-tentek,uran-suren,et-zhurek»isconsidered,whichhavenotyetbeenanalyzedonthebasisofTurkicmaterials