ـجی
Ottoman Turkish
Suffix
ـجی • (-ci or -cı or -cü or -cu)
- Suffix creating nouns describing an occupation
- قاشق (kaşık, “spoon”) + ـجی → قاشقجی (kaşıkcı, “spoon maker”)
Descendants
- Turkish: -ci, -cı, -cü, -cu, -çi, -çı, -çü, -çu
- → Albanian: -xhi
- → Armenian: -չի (-čʿi)
- → Serbo-Croatian: -džija, -џија, -ja, -ја
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “ـجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 695