Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From قالای (kalay, tin) +‎ ـجی (-cı, occupational suffix).

Noun edit

قالایجی (kalaycı)

  1. tinner, tinsmith, a person who makes things with tin

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Further reading edit

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalaycı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2349
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قالایجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 932
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالایجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1420
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis[3], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 162