ـجی
Appearance
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *-či.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]ـجی • (-ci or -cı or -cü or -cu)
- Suffix creating nouns describing an occupation
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: -ci
- → Albanian: -xhi
- → Arabic:
- Egyptian Arabic: ـجي (-gi)
- → Armenian: -չի (-čʻi)
- →⇒ Bulgarian: -джия (-džija)
- → Greek: -τζής (-tzís), -τζού (-tzoú)
- → Ladino: -dji
- → Romanian: -giu
- →⇒ Serbo-Croatian: -džija / -џија, -ja / -ја
References
[edit]- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ـجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 695