طوزجی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From طوز (tuz, “salt”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).
Noun
طوزجی • (tuzcu)
- salt merchant, a person who produces or sells salt
Descendants
- Turkish: tuzcu
- →⇒ Armenian: Թուզճյան (Tʿuzčyan)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tuzcu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4930
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Salarius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1502
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “طوزجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3144
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طوزجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1255