Where does “elçilik” come from?

elçilik (Azerbaijani) comes from Turkish elçi, from Ottoman Turkish ایلچی, from Old Turkic ایلچی, from Proto-Turkic *ēlči.

elçilik (Azerbaijani): going to an unmarried woman's house in order to ask her parents for her hand on a close relative's behalf

Definitions

  1. going to an unmarried woman's house in order to ask her parents for her hand on a close relative's behalf

Ancestry of “elçilik”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishelçiambassador; delegate; envoy
2Ottoman Turkishایلچیagent, proxy, one who acts in the place of another by that person's authority, someone entrusted to act on behalf of another
3Old Turkicایلچی—
4Proto-Turkic*ēlči—
Every word from Proto-Turkic *ēlči →Every word from Old Turkic ایلچی →Every word from Ottoman Turkish ایلچی →