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)

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, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 695

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