ـجی
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: -جي
- → Armenian: -չի (-čʻi)
- → Bulgarian: -джия (-džija)
- → Egyptian Arabic: ـجى (-gi)
- → 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