ـجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *-či.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi/, /d͡ʒɯ/, /d͡ʒy/, /d͡ʒu/

Suffix

ـجی • (-ci or -cı or -cü or -cu)

1. Suffix creating nouns describing an occupation

   ‎قاشق (kaşık, “spoon”) + ‎ـجی → ‎قاشقجی (kaşıkcı, “spoon maker”)

Derived terms

Ottoman Turkish terms suffixed with ـجی

Descendants

• 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

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ـجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 695