The “old” or “first” words and suffixes, whose existence is known by following the written texts, undergo various changes over time or can not survive in the timeline and fall out of use. Some words and suffixes continue to exist in the general language by clinging to some places. In Turkology studies, such words and suffixes are found with the terms “Fossil” and “Protected”. In this article, the term “Clinging” is proposed. One of the ways of attachment of such words and affixes, which are handled with the adjective “clinging”, is through the attachment of the word to the affix or the affix to the word (grammatical structure). Another way is to get hold of the word by expansion or contraction of meaning. Their clinging to words, which is another way, is thanks to literary genres such as folk songs and songs, famous popular poems, proverbs and idioms. These are ways of sticking to the word and attachment and protecting oneself. Such words and suffixes become standardized in stereotyped expressions; they even become stereotyped and gain continuity and prevalence. Constant repetition of that word and that suffix both preserves, maintains and disseminates it there. These words and suffixes live in the form and meaning of their time; other than that, they are not known in the general language and are not widely used. Continuing to live today, “clinging” to the ways mentioned in this article; but the words and suffixes that have fallen out of use in the general language have been examined.

Attached words, clinging words, clinging suffixes, standard Turkish, literary texts.