ـجی

Ottoman Turkish

Suffix

ـجی • (-ci or -cı or -cü or -cu)

Suffix creating nouns describing an occupation
‎قاشق‎ (kaşık, “spoon”) + ‎ـجی → ‎قاشقجی‎ (kaşıkcı, “spoon maker”)

Descendants

Turkish: -ci, -cı, -cü, -cu, -çi, -çı, -çü, -çu
→ Albanian: -xhi
→ Armenian: -չի (-čʿi)
→ 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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