وزنه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From وزنه (vezne, “balance for testing coin”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

وزنه‌جی • (vezneci)

1. maker or seller of balances or gauges used for testing coin
2. money-tester, a person who weighs coins to detect the fake ones
3. teller, cashier, a clerk who receives and pays out money

Descendants

• Turkish: vezneci
• →⇒ Armenian: Վեզնեճյան (Veznečyan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vezneci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5116
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وزنه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1309
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Libripens”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 947
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وزنه‌جی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5368
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وزنه‌جی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2136