كستانه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كستانه (kestane, “chestnut”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix). First attested in 1533 as chiesteneggí (kesteneci).

Noun

كستانه‌جی • (kestaneci)

1. grower or seller of chestnuts

Descendants

• Turkish: kestaneci

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kestaneci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2575
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كستانه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1025
• Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎^[2], volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 167