طوزجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From طوز (tuz, “salt”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -cu, occupational suffix).

Noun

طوزجی • (tuzcu)

1. salt merchant, a person who produces or sells salt

Descendants

• Turkish: tuzcu
• →⇒ Armenian: Թուզճյան (Tʻuzčyan)

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^[1], 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^[2], Vienna, column 3144
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوزجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1255